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Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034

Document AGRI-AM-790964 · (COM(2025)0560 – 2025/0241(COD))

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

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Amendment 3264

Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Csaba Dömötör, Tomáš Kubín, Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20b
Crisis payments to farmers following natural disasters, adverse climatic events, and catastrophic events, market disruptions and disease outbreaks
1. Member States may provide crisis payments to farmers that are affected by natural disasters, adverse climatic events or catastrophic events. In case of occurrence of such events, the support should promptly be made available to farmers. Those payments shall aim at ensuring continuity of the agricultural activity of those farmers and shall be subject to the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified by the Member States.
2. Support under this Article shall be subject to the formal recognition by the competent authority of the Member State that a natural disaster, adverse climatic event, catastrophic event or market disruptions, as defined by the Member State, has occurred and that these events, or measures adopted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 to eradicate or contain a plant disease or pest, or measures adopted to prevent or eradicate animal diseases listed in the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 or measures adopted regarding an emerging disease in accordance with Article 6(3) and Article 259 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 have directly caused a damage resulting in the destruction of at least 20 % of the average annual production of the farmer in the preceding three-year period or a three-year average based on the preceding five-year period, excluding the highest and the lowest entry.
3. The losses shall be calculated either at holding level, at the level of the holding’s activity in the sector concerned or in relation to the specific area concerned.
4. Member States shall establish the applicable support rates for compensating the loss of production. Those rates may be higher for farmers who also implement interventions, or other preventive actions at farm level, to reduce the level of production and income risks for which support is granted. Indexes may be used for calculating the loss of production.
5. When granting support under this Article, Member States shall ensure that overcompensation as a result of the combination of this support with other national or Union support instruments or private insurance schemes is avoided.

Or. en

Justification

Former NRP Art. 38 par 1-4 agreed to be transferred

"In case of occurrence of such events, the support should promptly be made available to farmers" addition

"30%" substituted by "20%"

"or market disruptions" addition

"shall" sub by "may"

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Amendment 3265

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20b
Crisis payments to farmers following natural disasters, adverse climatic events and catastrophic events
1. Member States may provide crisis payments to farmers that are affected by natural disasters, adverse climatic events or catastrophic events. Those payments shall aim at ensuring continuity of the agricultural activity of those farmers and shall be subject to the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified by the Member States.
2. Support under this Article shall be subject to the formal recognition by the competent authority of the Member State that a natural disaster, adverse climatic event or catastrophic event, as defined by the Member State, has occurred and that these events, or measures adopted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 to eradicate or contain a plant disease or pest, or measures adopted to prevent or eradicate animal diseases listed in the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 or measures adopted regarding an emerging disease in accordance with Article 6(3) and Article 259 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 have directly caused a damage resulting in the destruction of at least 30 % of the average annual production of the farmer in the preceding three-year period or a three-year average based on the preceding five-year period, excluding the highest and the lowest entry.
3. The losses shall be calculated either at holding level, at the level of the holding’s activity in the sector concerned or in relation to the specific area concerned.
4. Member States shall establish the applicable support rates for compensating the loss of production. Those rates shall be higher for farmers who also implement interventions, or other preventive actions at farm level, to reduce the level of production and income risks for which support is granted. Indexes may be used for calculating the loss of production.
5. When granting support under this Article, Member States shall ensure that overcompensation as a result of the combination of this support with other national or Union support instruments or private insurance schemes is avoided.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 38)

Amendment 3266

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20b
Crisis payments to farmers following natural disasters, adverse climatic events and catastrophic events
1. Member States may provide crisis payments to farmers that are affected by natural disasters, adverse climatic events or catastrophic events. Those payments shall aim at ensuring continuity of the agricultural activity of those farmers and shall be subject to the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified by the Member States.
2. Support under this Article shall be subject to the formal recognition by the competent authority of the Member State that a natural disaster, adverse climatic event or catastrophic event, as defined by the Member State, has occurred and that those events, the measures adopted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 to eradicate or contain a plant disease or pest, the measures adopted to prevent or eradicate animal diseases listed in the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 or the measures adopted regarding an emerging disease in accordance with Article 6(3) and Article 259 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 have directly caused damage that has resulted in the destruction of at least 30 % of the average annual production of the farmer in the preceding three-year period or a threeyear average based on the preceding fiveyear period, excluding the highest and the lowest entry.
3. The losses shall be calculated either at holding level, at the level of the holding’s activity in the sector concerned or in relation to the specific area concerned.
4. Member States shall establish the applicable support rates for compensating the loss of production. Those rates shall be higher for farmers who also implement interventions, or other preventive actions at farm level, to reduce the level of production and income risks for which support is granted. Indexes may be used for calculating the loss of production.
5. When granting support under this Article, Member States shall ensure that overcompensation as a result of the combination of this support with other national or Union support instruments or private insurance schemes is avoided.

Or. en

Amendment 3267

Luke Ming Flanagan, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Sebastian Everding, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20b
Crisis payments to farmers following natural disasters, adverse climatic events and catastrophic events
1. Member States may provide crisis payments to farmers that are affected by natural disasters, adverse climatic events or catastrophic events. Those payments shall aim at ensuring continuity of the agricultural activity of those farmers and shall be subject to the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified by the Member States.
2. Support under this Article shall be subject to the formal recognition by the competent authority of the Member State that a natural disaster, adverse climatic event or catastrophic event, as defined by the Member State, has occurred and that these events, or measures adopted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 to eradicate or contain a plant disease or pest, or measures adopted to prevent or eradicate animal diseases listed in the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 or measures adopted regarding an emerging disease in accordance with Article 6(3) and Article 259 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 have directly caused a damage resulting in the destruction of at least 30 % of the average annual production of the farmer in the preceding three-year period or a three-year average based on the preceding five-year period, excluding the highest and the lowest entry.
3. The losses shall be calculated either at holding level, at the level of the holding’s activity in the sector concerned or in relation to the specific area concerned.
4. Member States shall establish the applicable support rates for compensating the loss of production. Those rates shall be higher for farmers who also implement interventions, or other preventive actions at farm level, to reduce the level of production and income risks for which support is granted. Indexes may be used for calculating the loss of production.
5. When granting support under this Article, Member States shall ensure that overcompensation as a result of the combination of this support with other national or Union support instruments or private insurance schemes is avoided.

Or. en

Amendment 3268

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20b
Article 20b(new) (former NRP Art. 38) Crisis payments to farmers following natural disasters, adverse climatic events and catastrophic events
1. Member States may provide crisis payments to farmers that are affected by natural disasters, adverse climatic events or catastrophic events, ensring rapid, simplified and effective acess to support in order to safeguard the continuity of agricultural activity and food production. Those payments shall aim at ensuring continuity of the agricultural activity of those farmers and shall be subject to the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified by the Member States.
Member State shall ensure that crisis payment schemes are designed to allow swift mobilisation of funds, with minimal administrative delay.
3. The losses shall be calculated either at holding level, at the level of the holding’s activity in the sector concerned or in relation to the specific area concerned, allowing Member State to choose the most appropriate and least burdensome methodology.
4. Member States shall establish the applicable support rates for compensating the loss of production, taking into account the severity of the event, regional specificities and the need to ensure rapid recovery of agricultural production capacity. Those rates shall be higher for farmers who also implement interventions, or other preventive actions at farm level, to reduce the level of production and income risks for which support is granted. Indexes may be used for calculating the loss of production.
Member States shall ensure that crisis support mechanisms are coordinated with risk management tools under the CAP in order to avoid duplication and ensure coherent and efficient use of public funds.

Or. en

Amendment 3269

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Ana Miranda Paz

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20b
Crisis payments to farmers following natural disasters, adverse climatic events and catastrophic events
1. Member States may provide crisis payments to farmers that are affected by natural disasters, adverse climatic events or catastrophic events. Those payments shall aim at ensuring continuity of the agricultural activity of those farmers and shall be subject to the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified by the Member States.
1a. (new) Member States and Commission shall ensure via the coherence and verification check of the Commission in art.2 of this regulation and art. 23(1) [NRP] that the aid shall not be granted in a way that encourages maladaptive practices. Following the principle of budgetary efficiency, production restoration aid shall be suitably climate-adapted to minimise repeated exposure to the same or similar risks: re-planting and restoration shall be multi-species, high genetic diversity and pest-, climate-, and water-resilient, avoiding monocultures. The Commission shall check that the Member States shall use the crisis payments only in combination with prevention and risk mitigation activities.
1b. (new) In line with the above paragraphs, Member States may prioritise crisis payments to beneficiaries who implement, or commit to implement within a period defined by the Member States, preventive and adaptation measures and interventions at farm level aimed at reducing exposure to and mitigating the impact of such events. Member States shall define minimum requirements for such preventive and adaptation measures.
2. (...)
3. (...)
4. (...)
5. (...)

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 38)

Added 1a, b.

We need to build back better after a crisis, so it’s more resilient and adapted to contemporary challenges, to avoid wasting public money.

Amendment 3270

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20b.
Support for the development of agricultural production cooperatives, agricultural cooperatives and producer organisations
1. Member States may grant support for the establishment, development and operation of agricultural production cooperatives, agricultural cooperatives and producer organisations.
2. The support may encompass, in particular:
(a) the establishment of new entities;
(b) the development of existing entities;
(c) joint investments;
(d) the development of storage capacities;
(e) the development of processing operations;
(f) the organisation of joint sales;
(g) joint purchases of means of production;
(h) the implementation of innovative technologies;
(i) the digitalisation of activities;
(j) promotion measures.
3. Member States shall ensure that the support is aimed at strengthening the competitiveness of agricultural holdings, improving the position of agricultural producers in the food supply chain and increasing the added value retained by producers.
4. Support may be granted in the form of:
(a) grants;
(b) financial instruments;
(c) aid for advisory services;
(d) aid for training.

Or. pl

Amendment 3271

Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, Ana Miguel Pedro, Sérgio Humberto, Paulo Cunha, Sebastião Bugalho

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20b.
Co-financing rates for the outermost regions
1. By way of derogation from the common rules on the financial contributions for the NRP Plans, the Union funding rate shall be 100 % for the following expenditure:
(a) agricultural measures under the Programme of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI) in the outermost regions, as referred to in Article 349 TFEU and pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 228/2013;
(b) other income support schemes in the outermost regions.
2. In the case of rural development measures, in particular investment support measures, as well as measures relating to natural handicaps and agrienvironmental and climate measures adopted in the outermost regions of the Union, the financial contributions of the Member State concerned may not exceed 15 % of the total eligible public expenditure.

Or. pt

Amendment 3272

Carlo Fidanza, Waldemar Buda

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20b
Article 20b(new) Crisis payments to farmers following natural disasters, adverse climatic events and catastrophic events
4. Member States shall establish the applicable support rates for compensating the loss of production. Those rates shall be higher for farmers who also implement interventions, or other preventive actions at farm level, to reduce the level of production and income risks for which support is granted. Indexes may be used for calculating the loss of production.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 38)

DELETION: Those rates shall be higher for farmers who also implement interventions, or other preventive actions at farm level, to reduce the level of production and income risks for which support is granted.

It is not appropriate to establish differentiated thresholds, because for most exceptional events there are no preventive actions at the farm level.

Amendment 3273

Carmen Crespo Díaz, Elena Nevado del Campo, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20c.
Article 20d (new) (ex Article 41 of the NRP) Implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding on oilseeds
1. Where Member States provide for area-based interventions that are concerned in the Annex to the Memorandum of Understanding between the European Economic Community and the United States of America on oilseeds under GATT, the total of the support area based upon the planned outputs included in the Plans of the Member States concerned shall not exceed the maximum support area for the whole of the EU. The application of this maximum support area shall take into account the strategic importance of oil and protein crops for the EU’s food security, food autonomy, crop rotation, soil resilience, adapting to drought and reducing dependence on imports.
2. Every Member State that intends to grant the aid referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article must indicate in the Plan for Natural Resources (PNR) the corresponding planned surface areas, expressed in hectares. These planned surface areas must be justified on the basis of objective criteria, including the agronomic conditions, the potential for regional production, the role of oil and protein crops in crop rotation, resilience against drought, food and fodder security, and the need to maintain agricultural activity in areas at risk of abandonment.
3. If all the expected outcomes proposed by the Member States in their PNR plans exceed the maximum support area for the whole EU referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts setting the indicative reference support area for each Member State. This surface area shall be calculated on the basis of each Member State’s share of the average cultivation area in the EU during the previous five years starting with the year preceding the submission of the Plan proposal, taking into account objective agronomic, climate and socio-economic criteria, including vulnerability to drought, the role of oilseeds in crop rotation, regional dependence on those crops, protein and fodder autonomy, and areas at risk of abandonment. The reference support area shall not prevent Member States from increasing supported areas when that is duly justified by objective agronomic, climate or socio-economic needs, in particular vulnerability to drought, protein and fodder autonomy, the requirements of crop rotation and preventing land abandonment. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 88 of the NRP Regulation [committee procedure].
4. The Commission shall inform each of those Member States of the reduction coefficient. The Member States shall adjust the planned outputs in the NRP Plans in accordance with the reduction coefficients, ensuring that this adjustment does not disproportionately affect regions or agricultural systems in which oil and protein crops are essential to crop rotation, adaptation to drought, food autonomy, soil resilience or maintaining agricultural activity.
6a. This Article shall not reduce the possibility of Member States granting aid to farmers who produce oil or protein crops in the context of other CAP interventions, including aid linked to income, agri-environmental and climate actions, investments, risk-management tools, efficiency plans, generational renewal, the LEADER programme or interventions relating to rural objectives, provided that the aid fulfils applicable EU and international legislation.
7. Member States shall exclude the cultivation of sunflower seeds for domestic consumption from any area-based intervention referred to in paragraph 1. This will not reduce the possibility of supporting farmers who grow sunflower seeds for domestic consumption in the context of other CAP interventions that do not fall under the scope of application of paragraph 1, including investments, risk-management tools, agri-environmental and climate actions, LEADER interventions or interventions with rural objectives, where that support contributes to agricultural resilience, crop diversification, added value or maintaining agricultural activity.

Or. es

Amendment 3274

Mireia Borrás Pabón

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20c.
Scope and common requirements
1. This Chapter lays down specific types of intervention for agriculture to mitigate the difficulties caused by the insularity, small size and distance from markets of the smaller Aegean islands.
2. For the purposes of this Regulation ‘the smaller Aegean islands’ means any islands in the Aegean Sea except the islands of Crete and Evia.
3. In addition to contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3, point (d) of the NRP Regulation, the interventions referred to paragraph 1 shall contribute to the following objectives: (a) guaranteed supply to the smaller Aegean islands of products essential for human consumption or for processing and as agricultural inputs by mitigating the additional costs incurred due to their extreme remoteness or insularity, without harming local production and the growth thereof; (b) securing the long-term future and development of agricultural activities in the smaller Aegean islands, including the production, processing and sale of local crops and products, with a particular focus on food security and self-sufficiency, and maintaining and strengthening their competitiveness.
4. Greece may implement in smaller Aegean islands the interventions referred to in Article 35(1) of the NRP Regulation, except for those referred to in point (o) [outermost regions] thereof [Types of intervention].
5. Farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation shall apply to beneficiaries receiving support for local agricultural products referred to in Article 20(g) (new) of this Regulation [Support for local agricultural products].
6. However, beneficiaries of support for local agricultural products referred to in Article 20(g) (new) of this Regulation [Support for local agricultural products] receiving an annual payment that does not exceed EUR 3 000 shall be exempt from the farm stewardship requirements referred to in Annex XI, parts A and C, of this Regulation.

Or. es

Amendment 3275

Barry Cowen, Asger Christensen, Christine Singer, Jérémy Decerle

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20c
Delegated and implementing powers of the Commission relating to the integrated system
1.Where necessary to ensure that the integrated system provided for in Article 20j is implemented in an efficient, coherent and non-discriminatory way which protects the financial interests of the Union, the Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 23, supplementing this Regulation with:(a) rules on the methodology set up at Union level for the annual quality assessment of the elements of the integrated system, referred to in paragraph (3), points (a), (b) and (c); (b) rules on the LPIS, referred to in paragraph 3, point (c). 2. The Commission may adopt implementing acts laying down rules on: (a) the form and content of, and arrangements for transmitting or making available to the Commission of: (i) the assessment report referred to in paragraph (4); (ii) the remedial actions provided by Member States; (b) basic features of, and rules on: (i) AMS;(ii) GSA; (iii) LPIS (iv) the European land monitoring system.
3. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 25(3) [committee procedure, examination procedure].

Or. en

Amendment 3276

Daniel Buda, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20c.
Article 40 of the NRP Regulation – WTO domestic support has been moved from the NRPP Regulation
1. Member States shall design the CAP income support interventions on the basis of the types of intervention listed in Annex IIa [WTO Annex] to this Regulation, including the definitions and conditions laid down in Articles 2a and 2b [Definitions and framework definitions], in such a way that they qualify under the criteria of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture.
2. The support referred to in Article 5 paragraph 1 points (a), (d), (f), (g), (o) and (p) of this Regulation shall qualify under the criteria of the paragraphs of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture indicated in Annex IIa [WTO Annex] to this Regulation for those interventions. For other interventions, the paragraphs of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture indicated in Annex IIa [WTO Annex] to this Regulation [WTO Annex] are indicative and those interventions may instead comply with a different paragraph of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture if that is specified and explained in the NRP Plan.

Or. ro

Amendment 3277

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20c.
Support for water retention and the resilience of holdings to the effects of climate change
1. Member States may grant support for investments increasing the resilience of agricultural holdings to the effects of climate change.
2. The support may encompass, in particular:
(a) the construction and modernisation of water retention equipment;
(b) the development of small-scale water retention measures;
(c) the construction of drainage facilities which help to retain water;
(d) investments aimed at achieving greater efficiency in the use of water resources;
(e) drought monitoring and water management systems;
(f) solutions limiting the impacts of droughts and floods;
(g) investments aimed at combating soil degradation.
3. Member States may grant support for measures aimed at strengthening the ability of holdings to adapt to climate change and limiting the risk of production losses resulting from extreme climate events.
4. When laying down the conditions for the support, Member States shall take into account local climatic, hydrological and environmental conditions and the need to increase the resilience of agriculture to the effects of climate change.

Or. pl

Amendment 3278

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20c
WTO domestic support
1. Member States shall design the CAP income support interventions on the basis of the types of intervention listed in Annex XVII [WTO Annex] to this Regulation, including the definitions and conditions laid down in Article 1a (new) and Article 1b (new) of the present regulation and in Article 4 of the NRP Regulation, in such a way that they qualify under the criteria of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture.
2. The support referred to in Article 5 paragraph 1 points (a), (d), (g), (o) and (p) of that Regulation shall qualify under the criteria of the paragraphs of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture indicated in Annex XVII [WTO Annex] to this Regulation for those interventions. For other interventions, the paragraphs of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture indicated in Annex XVII to this Regulation [WTO Annex] are indicative and those interventions may instead comply with a different paragraph of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture if that is specified and explained in the NRP Plan.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 40)

Amendment 3279

Luke Ming Flanagan, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Sebastian Everding, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20c
WTO domestic support
1. Member States shall design the CAP income support interventions on the basis of the types of intervention listed in Annex XVII [WTO Annex] to this Regulation, including the definitions and conditions laid down in Article 1a (new) and Article 1b (new) of the present regulation and in Article 4 of the NRP Regulation, in such a way that they qualify under the criteria of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture.
2. The support referred to in Article 35 paragraph 1 points (a), (d), (g), (o) and (p) of the NRP Regulation shall qualify under the criteria of the paragraphs of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture indicated in Annex XVII [WTO Annex] to this Regulation for those interventions. For other interventions, the paragraphs of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture indicated in Annex XVII to this Regulation [WTO Annex] are indicative and those interventions may instead comply with a different paragraph of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture if that is specified and explained in the NRP Plan.

Or. en

Amendment 3280

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20c
WTO domestic support
1. Member States shall design the CAP income support interventions on the basis of the types of intervention listed in Annex XVII [WTO Annex] to this Regulation, including the definitions and conditions laid down in Article 1a (new) and Article 1b (new) of this Regulation and in Article 4 of the NRP Regulation, in such a way that they qualify under the criteria of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture.
2. The support referred to in Article 5 points (a), (d), (g), (o) and (p) of this Regulation shall qualify under the criteria of the paragraphs of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture indicated in Annex XVII to this Regulation [WTO Annex] to this Regulation for those interventions. For other interventions, the paragraphs of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture indicated in Annex XVII to this Regulation [WTO Annex] are indicative and those interventions may instead comply with a different paragraph of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture if that is specified and explained in the NRP Plan.

Or. en

Amendment 3281

Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Csaba Dömötör, Tomáš Kubín, Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20c
WTO domestic support
1. Member States shall design the CAP income support interventions on the basis of the types of intervention listed in Annex XVII [WTO Annex] to this Regulation, including the definitions and conditions laid down in Article 1a (new) and Article 1b (new) of the present regulation and in Article 4 of the NRP Regulation, in such a way that they qualify under the criteria of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture.
2. The support referred to in Article 5 paragraph 1 points (a), (d), (g), (o) and (p) of that Regulation shall qualify under the criteria of the paragraphs of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture indicated in Annex XVII [WTO Annex] to this Regulation for those interventions. For other interventions, the paragraphs of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture indicated in Annex XVII to this Regulation [WTO Annex] are indicative and those interventions may instead comply with a different paragraph of Annex 2 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture if that is specified and explained in the NRP Plan.

Or. en

Justification

Former NRP Art. 40

Amendment 3282

Carlo Fidanza, Waldemar Buda

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20c
(new) Transitional arrangements
This Regulation should provide for the continued application of the rules of the current CAP framework covering the period 2023 to 2027 (‘current CAP framework’) and for uninterrupted payments to farmers and other beneficiaries, and thus provide predictability and stability during the transitional period in the years 2028 and 2029 (‘transitional period’) until the date of application of the new legal framework.

Or. en

Justification

Given the legislative timelines and the complexity of the new EU budget governance framework, we believe transitional provisions should be included to ensure continuity of support for farmers under the existing rules. This would allow for the completion of the co-legislative process, the development and approval of the NRPs, and the adoption of secondary EU legislation and national implementing rules.

Amendment 3283

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20c
Implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding on oilseeds
- complete Art. deleted -

Or. en

(*Closing the EU protein gap – Drivers, synergies and trade-offs, Publications Office of the European Union, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/84255; JRC publication by Hristov et al 2024))

Justification

The MoU has led to severe over-reliance on imported oilseeds including leguminous protein crops such as soya, and to a severe decline in EU seed breeding of leguminous/ protein crops such as beans, peas, lentils and lupins, for both food and especially feed uses - feed import dependency for protein crops is as high as 75%*; they are hardly grown in the EU, and many local/regional breeds have been lost. The MoU creates a legal obstacle to the development of the EU own-grown oilseeds breeding and market; it is in the interest of our self-sufficiency & strategic autonomy to develop that market.

Amendment 3284

Daniel Buda, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20d.
[Article 70, paragraphs (4) to (10) of the NRP Regulation] Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) has been moved from the NRPP Regulation
1. Each Member State shall set up and operate an integrated administration and control system (the ‘integrated system’). It shall apply to the interventions listed in Article 5(1), points (a) to (g).
2. To the extent necessary, the integrated system shall also be used for the management of [farm stewardship] referred to in Article XX of Regulation XX [CAP], and in all appropriate cases to the measures referred to in Title VI [provisions on support for outermost regions].
3. The integrated system shall comprise the following elements:
(a) an agriculture monitoring system (AMS). The AMS is a procedure of regular and systematic observation, tracking and assessment of agricultural activities and practices by technological means, including Copernicus Sentinels satellite data;
(b) a geo-spatial and animal-based application system (GSA). The GSA is a digital application tool for the beneficiary to declare agricultural activities and practices of the holding;
(c) a land parcel identification system (LPIS);
(d) a system for the identification and registration of animals;
(e) a system for the identification of beneficiaries of the interventions listed in paragraphs 1 and 2;
(f) a control and penalty system. Member States shall annually carry out administrative checks on the aid application and payment claims to verify legality and regularity. Those checks shall be supplemented by on-the-spot checks, which may be executed remotely with the use of technology. However, Member States may choose not to carry out on the spot checks where the eligibility conditions of measures are monitored under the agriculture monitoring system referred to in point (a) of this Article.
4. Member States shall annually assess the quality of the elements of the integrated system referred to in Article 70(3), points (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EU) [...] [NRP], in accordance with the methodology set up at Union level. Where the assessment reveals deficiencies in the elements of the integrated system, Member States shall adopt appropriate remedial actions or, failing that, shall be requested by the Commission to set up a roadmap detailing the timeline for implementing the outstanding remedial actions. An assessment report and, where appropriate, the remedial actions and the timetable for their implementation shall be submitted to the Commission by 15 February following the calendar year concerned.
5. The Commission shall supply the satellite data, required for the agriculture monitoring system, free of charge to the authorities competent for the agriculture monitoring system or to suppliers of services authorised by those authorities to represent them. For the purpose of the quality assessment of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 1, the Commission shall provide them, free of charge, the necessary Very High Resolution imagery. The Commission shall remain the owner of the satellite data and imagery.
6. Without prejudice to the responsibilities of the Member States for the implementation and application of the integrated system Member States shall establish the European land monitoring system. It shall provide information to farmers to support sustainable management of their holdings. Furthermore, it shall provide data for CAP policy development and monitoring, and promote sharing of farm sustainability data.
7. The European land monitoring system shall include at least the data related to the elements of the integrated system referred to in Article 70(3) of Regulation (EU) [...] [NRP] and, where applicable, data shared by farmers with public authorities in accordance with Article 10. The Member States may provide additional services to enhance the European land monitoring system with other sources of information to the benefit of the farmers. 8. Where necessary to ensure that the integrated system provided for in Article 70 of Regulation (EU) [...] [NRP] and in this Article is implemented in an efficient, coherent and non-discriminatory way which protects the financial interests of the Union, the Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 23, supplementing this Regulation with:
(a) rules on the methodology set up at Union level for the annual quality assessment of the elements of the integrated system, referred to in Article 70(3), points (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EU) [...] [NRP];
(b) rules on the land parcel identification system (LPIS) referred to in Article 70(3), point (c) of Regulation (EU) [...] [NRP].
9. The Commission may adopt implementing acts laying down rules on:
(a) the form and content of, and arrangements for transmitting or making available to the Commission of:
(I) the assessment report referred to in paragraph (1);
(II) the remedial actions provided by Member States;
(b) basic features of, and rules on:
(I) the agriculture monitoring system (AMS);
(II) the geo-spatial and animal-based application system (GSA);
(III) the land parcel identification system (LPIS);
(IV) the European land monitoring system.
10. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 24 [committee procedure, examination procedure].

Or. ro

Amendment 3285

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20d
Implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding on oilseeds
1. Where Member States provide for area-based interventions relevant for the Annex to the Memorandum of Understanding between the European Economic Community and the United States of America on oilseeds under GATT, the total of the support area based upon the planned outputs included in the Plans of the Member States concerned shall not exceed the maximum support area for the whole Union.
2. Each Member State that intends to grant the support referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall indicate the corresponding planned outputs in hectares in the NRP Plan.
3. If all planned outputs proposed by Member States in their NRP Plans exceed the maximum support area for the whole Union referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts fixing the indicative reference support area for each Member State calculated on the basis of each Member State’s share of the average cultivation area in the Union during the previous five years starting with the year preceding the submission of the Plan proposal. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 88 NRP Regulation [committee procedure].
4. The Commission shall inform each of those Member State of the reduction coefficient. The Member States shall adjust the proposed planned outputs in the NRP Plans in accordance with the reduction coefficients.
5. If a Member State intends to increase the planned outputs referred to in paragraph 1 set out in the NRP Plan approved by the Commission, it shall notify the Commission by means of a request to amend the NRP Plan.
6. Where necessary to avoid that the maximum support area for the whole Union referred to in paragraph 1 is exceeded, the Commission shall set reduction coefficients or revise existing reduction coefficients for all Member States that exceeded their reference support area in their NRP Plans. The Commission shall set or revise the reduction coefficients referred to in the first subparagraph by means of an implementing decision.
7. Member States shall exclude the cultivation of confectionery sunflower seed from any area-based intervention referred to in paragraph 1.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 41)

Amendment 3286

Luke Ming Flanagan, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Sebastian Everding, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20d
Implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding on oilseeds.
1. Where Member States provide for area-based interventions relevant for the Annex to the Memorandum of Understanding between the European Economic Community and the United States of America on oilseeds under GATT, the total of the support area based upon the planned outputs included in the Plans of the Member States concerned shall not exceed the maximum support area for the whole Union.
2. Each Member State that intends to grant the support referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall indicate the corresponding planned outputs in hectares in the NRP Plan.
3. If all planned outputs proposed by Member States in their NRP Plans exceed the maximum support area for the whole Union referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts fixing the indicative reference support area for each Member State calculated on the basis of each Member State’s share of the average cultivation area in the Union during the previous five years starting with the year preceding the submission of the Plan proposal. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 88 NRP Regulation [committee procedure].
4. The Commission shall inform each of those Member State of the reduction coefficient. The Member States shall adjust the proposed planned outputs in the NRP Plans in accordance with the reduction coefficients.
5. If a Member State intends to increase the planned outputs referred to in paragraph 1 set out in the NRP Plan approved by the Commission, it shall notify the Commission by means of a request to amend the NRP Plan.
6. Where necessary to avoid that the maximum support area for the whole Union referred to in paragraph 1 is exceeded, the Commission shall set reduction coefficients or revise existing reduction coefficients for all Member States that exceeded their reference support area in their NRP Plans. The Commission shall set or revise the reduction coefficients referred to in the first subparagraph by means of an implementing decision.
7. Member States shall exclude the cultivation of confectionery sunflower seed from any area-based intervention referred to in paragraph 1.

Or. en

Amendment 3287

Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Gilles Pennelle, Valérie Deloge, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Csaba Dömötör, Tomáš Kubín, Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20d
Implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding on oilseeds
1. Where Member States provide for area-based interventions relevant for the Annex to the Memorandum of Understanding between the European Economic Community and the United States of America on oilseeds under GATT, the total of the support area based upon the planned outputs included in the Plans of the Member States concerned shall not exceed the maximum support area for the whole Union.
2. Each Member State that intends to grant the support referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall indicate the corresponding planned outputs in hectares in the NRP Plan.
3. If all planned outputs proposed by Member States in their NRP Plans exceed the maximum support area for the whole Union referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts fixing the indicative reference support area for each Member State calculated on the basis of each Member State’s share of the average cultivation area in the Union during the previous five years starting with the year preceding the submission of the Plan proposal. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 88 NRP Regulation [committee procedure].
4. The Commission shall inform each of those Member State of the reduction coefficient. The Member States shall adjust the proposed planned outputs in the NRP Plans in accordance with the reduction coefficients.
5. If a Member State intends to increase the planned outputs referred to in paragraph 1 set out in the NRP Plan approved by the Commission, it shall notify the Commission by means of a request to amend the NRP Plan.
6. Where necessary to avoid that the maximum support area for the whole Union referred to in paragraph 1 is exceeded, the Commission shall set reduction coefficients or revise existing reduction coefficients for all Member States that exceeded their reference support area in their NRP Plans. The Commission shall set or revise the reduction coefficients referred to in the first subparagraph by means of an implementing decision.
7. Member States shall exclude the cultivation of confectionery sunflower seed from any area-based intervention referred to in paragraph 1.

Or. en

Justification

Former NRP Art. 41

Amendment 3288

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20d
Implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding on oilseeds
1. Where Member States provide for area-based interventions relevant for the Annex to the Memorandum of Understanding between the European Economic Community and the United States of America on oilseeds under GATT, the total of the support area based upon the planned outputs included in the Plans of the Member States concerned shall not exceed the maximum support area for the whole Union.
2. Each Member State that intends to grant the support referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall indicate the corresponding planned outputs in hectares in the NRP Plan.
3. If all planned outputs proposed by Member States in their NRP Plans exceed the maximum support area for the whole Union referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts fixing the indicative reference support area for each Member State calculated on the basis of each Member State’s share of the average cultivation area in the Union during the previous five years starting with the year preceding the submission of the Plan proposal. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 88 NRP Regulation [committee procedure].
4. The Commission shall inform each of those Member State of the reduction coefficient. The Member States shall adjust the proposed planned outputs in the NRP Plans in accordance with the reduction coefficients.
5. If a Member State intends to increase the planned outputs referred to in paragraph 1 set out in the NRP Plan approved by the Commission, it shall notify the Commission by means of a request to amend the NRP Plan.
6. Where necessary to avoid that the maximum support area for the whole Union referred to in paragraph 1 is exceeded, the Commission adopt implementing acts in the form of a decision setting the reduction coefficients or revising existing reduction coefficients for all Member States that exceeded their reference support area in their NRP Plans.
7. Member States shall exclude the cultivation of confectionery sunflower seed from any area-based intervention referred to in paragraph 1.

Or. en

Amendment 3289

Mireia Borrás Pabón

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20d.
Specific supply arrangements
1. Specific supply arrangements shall be established for the agricultural products listed in Annex I to the TFEU which are essential in the smaller Aegean islands for human consumption, for the manufacture of other products or as agricultural inputs.
2. Greece shall establish in its Plan, at the geographical level which it deems most appropriate, a maximum volume of each agricultural product, from among the products listed in Annex I to the TFEU, to quantify the annual supply requirements for the smaller Aegean islands.
3. The maximum volume of agricultural products referred to in the first subparagraph shall comprise also the volumes of those products required by undertakings packaging and processing products intended for the local market, for consignment to the rest of the EU or for export to third countries as part of regional trade or within the context of traditional trade flows. The maximum volume of the products referred to in the first subparagraph shall be established taking into account in particular the quantities of those products established in the supply forecast balance sheets in the previous programming period.
4. Support shall be granted to supply the smaller Aegean islands with Union products to ensure special supply requirements established in accordance with paragraph 2 in terms of price and quality, while maintaining the Union’s share in the supplies of those products.
5. No support shall be granted for the supply of products which have already benefited from the specific supply arrangements in another smaller Aegean islands.
6. Only products of sound, fair and marketable quality shall benefit from the specific supply arrangements.
7. In implementing the specific supply arrangements, Greece shall take account in particular of the need to ensure that existing local production is not destabilised nor obstructed in its development and of the requirement laid down in paragraph 5.

Or. es

Amendment 3290

Carmen Crespo Díaz, Elena Nevado del Campo, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20d.
Article 20i (new) (ex Article 57 of the NRP) European and national CAP Network
3. The objectives of the national and European CAP networks shall be to:
(a) involve stakeholders, in particular organisations representing farmers and livestock breeders, cooperatives, producer organisations, irrigation communities, young farmers, women in rural areas, local action groups and regional and local authorities in the design, implementation, monitoring and reviewing of CAP interventions under the Plan to Reduce Risks to the Population (PRNP).
(d) foster innovation, peer to peer learning, and knowledge sharing, in particular in relation to water efficiency, sustainable irrigation, reuse of water, digitalisation, precision farming, plant and animal health, biosecurity, integrated pest management, generational renewal, fire prevention, adaptation to climate change, agricultural competitiveness and food security;
4. To achieve the objectives set out in paragraph 3, the networks shall:
(a) collect, analyse and disseminate information on good practice relating to the CAP, as well as analysis of developments in agriculture and rural areas, including good practices in relation to sustainable water management, fire prevention, soil management and livestock;
(d) support the networking of funded cooperation projects, such as local action groups (LEADER), EIP-AGRI operational groups referred to in Article 19 of this Regulation, cooperatives, producer and agricultural organisations, and promote links with other EU-funded strategies.

Or. es

Amendment 3291

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20d.
Support for biosecurity and the prevention and eradication of infectious diseases in animals
1. Member States may grant support for measures aimed at increasing the level of biosecurity in agricultural holdings and at preventing and eradicating infectious diseases in animals;
2. The support may encompass, in particular:
(a) investments aimed at improving the level of biosecurity;
(b) purchases of the equipment and facilities necessary to ensure biosecurity;
(c) mandatory veterinary measures;
(d) laboratory testing;
(e) measures relating to the monitoring of infectious animal diseases;
(f) measures relating to the eradication of outbreaks of infectious disease;
(g) biosecurity training and advice.
3. Member States may grant support with a view to covering all or some of the costs of measures required under provisions of Union or national law.
4. The support shall help to increase the level of biosecurity in agricultural holdings, limit economic losses and ensure Union food security.

Or. pl

Amendment 3292

Barry Cowen, Asger Christensen, Christine Singer, Jérémy Decerle

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20d
Land parcel identification system
1. The identification system for agricultural parcels shall be a geographic information system established and regularly updated by the Member States on the basis of aerial or spatial ortho-imagery, with a uniform standard that guarantees a level of accuracy that is at least equivalent to that of cartography at a scale of 1:5 000 .
2. Member States shall ensure that the identification system for agricultural parcels: (a) uniquely identifies each agricultural parcel and units of land containing non-agricultural areas considered eligible by the Member States for receiving the aid for the interventions referred to in Article 5 paragraph 1 and contains up-to-date values on the areas considered eligible by the Member States for receiving the aid for these interventions; (b) enables the correct localisation of agricultural parcels and non-agricultural areas claimed for payment.

Or. en

Amendment 3293

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20d
Scope and common requirements
( ... )
6. However, beneficiary of support for local agricultural products referred to in Article 20g(new) of this Regulation [Support for local agricultural products] receiving an annual payment that does not exceed EUR 3 000 shall be exempt from controls and sanctions of farm stewardship referred to in Annex XI, parts A and C, of this Regulation.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 42; "(...)" = no change from NRP article ) Addition in 6. ""controls and sanctions of". Deleted "requirements". Status quo wrt abiding by the good farming practices allows small farmers in the simplified lump sum scheme to benefit from incentive payments as well.

Amendment 3294

Carmen Crespo Díaz, Elena Nevado del Campo, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 e (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20e.
Article 20j (new) (ex Article 70 of the NRP) Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS)
1. Each Member State shall set up and operate an integrated administration and control system ( the ‘integrated system’). This system shall apply to the interventions listed in Article 5(1), points (a) to (g) of this Regulation, and shall be designed and applied as a tool for simplification, legal security, ad hoc payments and reducing the administrative burden for farmers and beneficiaries.
2. To the extent necessary, the integrated system shall also be used for the management of farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation, and in all appropriate cases for the measures referred to in Title VI [provisions on support for outermost regions] of the NRP Regulation, provided that this use does not produce additional obligations to provide information, duplicated checks or automatic penalties for farmers or beneficiaries.
3. The integrated system shall comprise the following elements:
(a) an agricultural monitoring system (AMS). The AMS is a procedure of regular and systematic observation, monitoring and assessment of agricultural activities and practices by technological means, including Copernicus Sentinels satellite data; its aim is to support the management of CAP interventions, reduce on-the-spot inspections and help farmers and authorities. The information generated by the AMS alone shall not constitute a sufficient basis for penalties, reductions in payments, exclusions or recovery of payments without prior verification or without giving the farmer or beneficiary concerned the opportunity to provide explanations, corrections or evidence;
(b) a geo-spatial and animal-based application system (GSA). The GSA is a digital application tool for the beneficiary to declare the agricultural activities and practices of the holding; The GSA must be easy to use, accessible and, where possible, preloaded with information that is already available to the authority, in accordance with the once-only principle. Beneficiaries will be able to correct, update or clarify the information shown without a disproportionate administrative burden;
(f) a monitoring and penalty system based on proportionality, risk analysis and the right of beneficiaries to be heard. Each year, Member States shall carry out administrative checks on the aid application and payment claims to verify that they are legal and correct. Those checks shall be supplemented where necessary by on-the-spot checks, which may be conducted remotely through the use of technology. The Member States shall avoid the duplication of checks and may opt not to conduct on-the-spot checks when the eligibility conditions for the measures are overseen by the agricultural monitoring system referred to in point (a) of this Article. Minor, obvious or unintentional errors shall not give rise to disproportionate penalties.
4. Member States shall annually assess the quality of the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3, points (a), (b) and (c), in accordance with the methodology set up at Union level. Where the assessment reveals deficiencies in the elements of the integrated system, Member States shall adopt appropriate remedial actions or, failing this, the Commission shall request that they set up a roadmap detailing the timeline for implementing the outstanding remedial actions. The assessment report and, where applicable, the corrective measures and the timeline for implementing them shall be presented to the Commission before 15 February of the year following the corresponding calendar year. Deficiencies in the assessment of the quality of the integrated system shall not automatically result in delays, reductions, exclusions or recovery of payments to farmers or beneficiaries where those deficiencies are attributable to administrative- technical- or system-related problems.
6. Without prejudice to the responsibilities of the Member States for the application of the integrated system, Member States shall establish the European land monitoring system. This system shall provide useful, accessible and practical information to farmers to support sustainable development, water efficiency, soil management, adaptation to climate change, fire, pest and disease prevention, and the resilience of their holdings In addition, it will provide aggregated, anonymised data for the development and monitoring of CAP policies, and will be able to promote the voluntary exchange of data on the sustainability of holdings, while complying with data protection, business confidentiality and the monitoring of farmers based on the data relating to their activity.
7. The European land monitoring system shall include at least the data related to the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3 and, where applicable, data shared by farmers with public authorities in accordance with Article 21 of this Regulation. The use of data shared by farmers shall be limited to the purposes for which it was provided, unless the farmer or beneficiary in question has given their consent for its subsequent use or the data is aggregated or anonymised. The Member States may provide additional services to enhance the European land monitoring system with other sources of information to the benefit of the farmers.
8. When it is strictly necessary to ensure that the integrated system provided for in this chapter is applied in an efficient, coherent and non-discriminatory manner, thus protecting the financial interests of the EU, the Commission is authorised to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 23, which complement this Regulation solely with technical rules on:
(a) rules on the methodology set up at Union level for the annual quality assessment of the elements of the integrated system, referred to in paragraph 3, points (a), (b) and (c);
(b) rules on the Integrated Food Price System (SIP) referred to in paragraph 3, point (c). These delegated acts shall not introduce new eligibility conditions, obligations to provide information, monitoring requirements, obligations to exchange data or payment restrictions for farmers, beneficiaries or national or regional authorities beyond those established in this Regulation.
Legislative acts transposing the Regulation must respect proportionality, the ‘once-only’ principle, data protection, business confidentiality and the objective of reducing the administrative burden for farmers and beneficiaries.

Or. es

Amendment 3295

Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Gilles Pennelle, Valérie Deloge, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Csaba Dömötör, Tomáš Kubín, Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 e (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20e
European and national CAP Network
1. Each Member State shall, at the latest 12 months after the approval by the Commission of the Plan, establish a national network for CAP (‘national CAP network’) for the networking of organisations and administrations, advisors, researchers and other innovation actors, and other actors in the field of agriculture and rural development at national level. The national CAP networks shall build on the existing networking experience and practices in the Member States.
2. The Commission shall establish a European network for the Common Agricultural Policy (‘European CAP network’) to link national networks, organisations, and administrations in the field of agriculture and rural development at Union level.
3. The objectives of the national and European CAP networks shall be to:
(a) involve stakeholders in the design and implementation of the CAP interventions of the NRP Plan;
(b) support Member State administrations in implementing the CAP interventions;
(c) improve the quality of the NRP Plans and in particular their measures related to agriculture and disseminate results; (d) foster innovation, peer-to-peer learning, and knowledge-sharing;
(e) enhance monitoring and evaluation capacities;
(f) disseminate information on the CAP and funding opportunities;
(g) contribute to further development of the CAP.
4. To achieve the objectives referred to in paragraph 6, the networks shall:
(a) collect, analyse, and disseminate information on good practices concerning the CAP as well as analysis on developments in agriculture and rural areas;
(b) build capacity for Member States’ administrations and other actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the NRP Plans concerning the CAP;
(c) facilitate exchanges, peer-to-peer learning, and networking, including where relevant exchanges with networks in third countries;
(d) support the networking of funded cooperation projects, such as local action groups under Article 18a [LEADER] of this Regulation, EIP-AGRI operational groups referred to in Article 19 of this Regulation (and promote links to other Union-funded strategies.
5. The European CAP network and the national CAP networks shall collaborate and carry out joint activities in the achievement of the objectives referred to in paragraph 3.The European CAP network shall use a distinctive visual identity.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 57)

Amendment 3296

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 e (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20e
Article 20j(new) (former NRP Art. 70) Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS)
*Article 20j
1. Each Member State shall set up and operate an integrated administration and control system (the ‘integrated system’). It shall apply to the interventions listed in Article 5(1), points (a) to (g) of that Regulation.
2. To the extent necessary, the integrated system shall also be used for the management of farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation, and in all appropriate cases to the measures referred to in Title VI [provisions on support for outermost regions] of the NRP Regulation.
3. The integrated system shall comprise the following elements:
(a) an agriculture monitoring system (AMS). The AMS is a procedure of regular and systematic observation, tracking and assessment of agricultural activities and practices by technological means, including Copernicus Sentinels satellite data;
(b) a geo-spatial and animal-based application system (GSA). The GSA is a digital application tool for the beneficiary to declare agricultural activities and practices of the holding;
(c) a land parcel identification system (LPIS); *including, data on farm size, land use and land tenure*;
(d) a system for the identification and registration of animals;
(e) a system for the identification of *effective* beneficiaries of the interventions listed in paragraphs 1 and 2;
(...)
7. The European land monitoring system shall comprise at least the data related to the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3 and, where applicable, data shared by farmers with public authorities in accordance with Article 21 of this regulation. The Member States may provide additional services to enhance the European land monitoring system with other sources of information, *including data relevant to monitoring land concentration, land tenure, land market dynamics, access‑to‑land conditions, and data from national or regional land observatories,* to the benefit of the farmers *and public authorities*.
(...)

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 70) Added (between asterixis e.g.*xyz*) in: 3c " including, data on farm size, land use and land tenure; ", 3e "effective", in 7 "including...observatories", "and public authorities. In (...) text stays as in NRP.

Amendment 3297

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 e (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20e
Scope and common requirements
1. This Chapter lays down specific types of intervention for agriculture to mitigate the difficulties caused by the insularity, small size and distance from markets of the smaller Aegean islands.
2. For the purposes of this Regulation ‘the smaller Aegean islands’ means any islands in the Aegean Sea except the islands of Crete and Evia.
3. In addition to contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3, point (d) of the NRP Regulation, the interventions referred to paragraph 1 shall contribute to the following objectives:
(a) guaranteed supply to the smaller Aegean islands of products essential for human consumption or for processing and as agricultural inputs by mitigating the additional costs incurred due to their extreme remoteness or insularity, without harming local production and the growth thereof;
(b) securing the long-term future and development of agricultural activities in the smaller Aegean islands, including the production, processing and sale of local crops and products, with a particular focus on food security and self-sufficiency, and maintaining and strengthening their competitiveness.
4. Greece may implement in smaller Aegean islands the interventions referred to in Article 5(1) of that Regulation, except for those referred to in point (o) [outermost regions] of the first paragraph of that Article [Types of intervention].
5. Farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this regulation shall apply to beneficiaries receiving support for local agricultural products referred to in Article 20g(new) of this Regulation [Support for local agricultural products].
6. However, beneficiary of support for local agricultural products referred to in Article 20g(new) of this Regulation [Support for local agricultural products] receiving an annual payment that does not exceed EUR 3 000 shall be exempt from farm stewardship requirements referred to in Annex XI, parts A and C, of this Regulation

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 42)

Amendment 3298

Luke Ming Flanagan, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Sebastian Everding

on behalf of The Left Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 e (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20e
Scope and common requirements.
1. This Chapter lays down specific types of intervention for agriculture to mitigate the difficulties caused by the insularity, small size and distance from markets of the smaller Aegean islands.
2. For the purposes of this Regulation ‘the smaller Aegean islands’ means any islands in the Aegean Sea except the islands of Crete and Evia.
3. In addition to contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3, point (d) of the NRP Regulation, the interventions referred to paragraph 1 shall contribute to the following objectives:
(a) guaranteed supply to the smaller Aegean islands of products essential for human consumption or for processing and as agricultural inputs by mitigating the additional costs incurred due to their extreme remoteness or insularity, without harming local production and the growth thereof;
(b) securing the long-term future and development of agricultural activities in the smaller Aegean islands, including the production, processing and sale of local crops and products, with a particular focus on food security and self-sufficiency, and maintaining and strengthening their competitiveness.
4. Greece may implement in smaller Aegean islands the interventions referred to in Article 35(1) of the NRP Regulation, except for those referred to in point (o) [outermost regions] of the first paragraph of that Article [Types of intervention].
5. Farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this regulation shall apply to beneficiaries receiving support for local agricultural products referred to in Article 20g(new) of this Regulation [Support for local agricultural products].
6. However, beneficiary of support for local agricultural products referred to in Article 20g(new) of this Regulation [Support for local agricultural products] receiving an annual payment that does not exceed EUR 3 000 shall be exempt from farm stewardship requirements referred to in Annex XI, parts A and C, of this Regulation

Or. en

Amendment 3299

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 e (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20e
Scope and common requirements
1. This Chapter lays down specific types of intervention for agriculture to mitigate the difficulties caused by the insularity, small size and distance from markets of the smaller Aegean islands.
2. For the purposes of this Regulation ‘the smaller Aegean islands’ means any islands in the Aegean Sea except the islands of Crete and Evia.
3. In addition to contributing to the specific objectives set out in Article 3, point (d) of the NRP Regulation, the interventions referred to paragraph 1 shall contribute to the following objectives:
(a) guaranteed supply to the smaller Aegean islands of products essential for human consumption or for processing and as agricultural inputs by mitigating the additional costs incurred due to their extreme remoteness or insularity, without harming local production and the growth thereof;
(b) securing the long-term future and development of agricultural activities in the smaller Aegean islands, including the production, processing and sale of local crops and products, with a particular focus on food security and selfsufficiency, and maintaining and strengthening their competitiveness.
4. Greece may implement in smaller Aegean islands the interventions referred to in Article 35(1) of the NRP Regulation, except for those referred to in point (o) [outermost regions] thereof [Types of intervention].
5. Farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this regulation shall apply to beneficiaries receiving support for local agricultural products referred to in Article 20g(new) of this Regulation [Support for local agricultural products].
6. However, beneficiary of support for local agricultural products referred to in Article 20g(new) of this Regulation [Support for local agricultural products] receiving an annual payment that does not exceed EUR 3 000 shall be exempt from farm stewardship requirements referred to in parts A and C of Annex XI to this Regulation.

Or. en

Amendment 3300

Mireia Borrás Pabón

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 e (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20e.
Support for local agricultural products
1. Greece shall grant support for production, processing, marketing and transport of raw and processed agricultural products in the smaller Aegean islands.
2. Greece shall design the interventions so as to ensure the continuity and the development of local agricultural production in the smaller Aegean islands.
3. Greece shall provide for a fair distribution of payments. Greece may cap the amount of the support that is granted to a beneficiary in a given calendar year or use degressive payments.
4. Greece may grant support for marketing of products outside of the region in which they are produced. That support shall not exceed 10% of the value of the production marketed, delivered to a destination zone in a given calendar year.
5. When a Plan is amended in accordance with Article 24 of the NRP Regulation [amendment of the NRP Plan], beneficiaries affected by exceptional natural disasters or severe meteorological events may continue to benefit from aid in the form of measures to support production, processing or sale provided for in paragraph 1 irrespective of their level of activity throughout the restoration period, but subject to a formal commitment to restore their agricultural production capacity.

Or. es

Amendment 3301

Barry Cowen, Asger Christensen, Christine Singer, Jérémy Decerle

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 e (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20e
Geo-spatial and animal-based application system
1. As regards the aid for the area-based interventions referred to in Article 5 paragraph 1, Member States shall require the submission of an application by means of the geo-spatial application form provided by the competent authority.
2. As regards the aid for the animal-based interventions referred to in Article 5 paragraph 1, Member States shall require the submission of an application.
3. Member States shall pre-fill the applications referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article with information from the systems referred to in Article 20b paragrraph 3 or from any other relevant public database.
4. Member States may set up an automatic claim system and decide which applications referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 it shall cover.
5. If a Member State decides to use an automatic claim system, it shall set up a system which enables the administration to make the payments to the beneficiaries on the basis of the existing information in the official computerised databases. Where there has been a change, that existing information shall be supplemented with additional information, where necessary, to cover that change. The existing information and additional information available through the automatic claim system shall be confirmed by the beneficiary.

Or. en

Amendment 3302

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 e (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20e.
Support for mechanisms aimed at stabilising agricultural markets
1. Member States may set up instruments aimed at stabilising agricultural markets and mitigating the consequences of extraordinary market disturbances.
2. The support may encompass, in particular: (a) market intervention instruments;
(b) support for private storage;
(c) farmers’ income stabilisation funds;
(d) extraordinary financial support mobilised in the event of serious market disturbances;
(e) instruments mitigating the consequences of sudden changes in the prices of agricultural products.
3. Member States shall lay down the conditions for mobilising market stabilisation instruments in their NRP Plans.
4. The instruments referred to in this Article shall complement the interventions set out in Article 12 and may be applied in the event of economic, health, climate or geopolitical crises which have an effect on the functioning of the agricultural markets.

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Amendment 3303

Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Gilles Pennelle, Valérie Deloge, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Csaba Dömötör, Tomáš Kubín, Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 f (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20f
Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS)
1. Each Member State shall set up and operate an integrated administration and control system (the ‘integrated system’). It shall apply to the interventions listed in Article 5(1), points (a) to (g) of that Regulation.
2. To the extent necessary, the integrated system shall also be used for the management of farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation, and in all appropriate cases to the measures referred to in Title VI [provisions on support for outermost regions] of the NRP Regulation.
3. The integrated system shall comprise the following elements:
(a) an agriculture monitoring system (AMS). The AMS is a procedure of regular and systematic observation, tracking and assessment of agricultural activities and practices by technological means, including Copernicus Sentinels satellite data;
(b) a geo-spatial and animal-based application system (GSA). The GSA is a digital application tool for the beneficiary to declare agricultural activities and practices of the holding;
(c) a land parcel identification system (LPIS);
(d) a system for the identification and registration of animals;
(e) a system for the identification of beneficiaries of the interventions listed in paragraphs 1 and 2;
(f) a control and penalty system. Member States shall annually carry out administrative checks on the aid application and payment claims to verify legality and regularity. Those checks shall be supplemented by on-the-spot checks, which may be executed remotely with the use of technology. However, Member States may choose not to carry out on the spot checks where the eligibility conditions of measures are monitored under the agriculture monitoring system referred to in point (a) of this Article.
4. Member States shall annually assess the quality of the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3, points (a), (b) and (c), in accordance with the methodology set up at Union level. Where the assessment reveals deficiencies in the elements of the integrated system, Member States shall adopt appropriate remedial actions or, failing that, shall be requested by the Commission to set up a roadmap detailing the timeline for implementing the outstanding remedial actions. An assessment report and, where appropriate, the remedial actions and the timetable for their implementation shall be submitted to the Commission by 15 February following the calendar year concerned.
5. The Commission shall supply the satellite data, required for the agriculture monitoring system, free of charge to the authorities competent for the agriculture monitoring system or to suppliers of services authorised by those authorities to represent them. For the purpose of the quality assessment of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 4, the Commission shall provide them, free of charge, the necessary Very High Resolution imagery. The Commission shall remain the owner of the satellite data and imagery.
6. Without prejudice to the responsibilities of the Member States for the implementation and application of the integrated system Member States shall establish the European land monitoring system. It shall provide information to farmers to support sustainable management of their holdings. Furthermore, it shall provide data for CAP policy development and monitoring, and promote sharing of farm sustainability data.
7. The European land monitoring system shall comprise at least the data related to the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3 and, where applicable, data shared by farmers with public authorities in accordance with Article 21 of this regulation. The Member States may provide additional services to enhance the European land monitoring system with other sources of information to the benefit of the farmers.
8. Where necessary to ensure that the integrated system provided for in this Chapter is implemented in an efficient, coherent and non-discriminatory way which protects the financial interests of the Union, the Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts in accordance with Article 23, supplementing this Regulation with:
(a) rules on the methodology set up at Union level for the annual quality assessment of the elements of the integrated system, referred to in paragraph (3), points (a), (b) and (c);

Or. en

Justification

former NRP Art. 70 agreed to be transferred

par. 8 delegated sub. by implementing

Amendment 3304

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 f (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20f
Specific supply arrangements
1. Specific supply arrangements shall be established for the agricultural products listed in Annex I to the TFEU which are essential in the smaller Aegean islands for human consumption, for the manufacture of other products or as agricultural inputs. 2. Greece shall establish in its Plan, at the geographical level which it deems most appropriate, a maximum volume of each agricultural product, from among the products listed in Annex I to the TFEU, to quantify the annual supply requirements for the smaller Aegean islands.
3. The maximum volume of agricultural products referred to in the first subparagraph shall comprise also the volumes of those products required by undertakings packaging and processing products intended for the local market, for consignment to the rest of the Union or for export to third countries as part of regional trade or within the context of traditional trade flows. The maximum volume of the products referred to in the first subparagraph shall be established taking into account in particular the quantities of those products established in the supply forecast balance sheets in the previous programming period.
4. Support shall be granted to supply the smaller Aegean islands with Union products to ensure special supply requirements established in accordance with paragraph 2 in terms of price and quality, while maintaining the Union’s share in the supplies of those products.
5. No support shall be granted for the supply of products which have already benefited from the specific supply arrangements in another smaller Aegean islands.
6. Only products of sound, fair and marketable quality shall benefit from the specific supply arrangements.
7. In implementing the specific supply arrangements, Greece shall take account in particular of the need to ensure that existing local production is not destabilised nor obstructed in its development and of the requirement laid down in paragraph 5.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 43)

Amendment 3305

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 f (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20f
Specific supply arrangements
1. Specific supply arrangements shall be established for the agricultural products listed in Annex I to the TFEU which are essential in the smaller Aegean islands for human consumption, for the manufacture of other products or as agricultural inputs.
2. Greece shall establish in its Plan, at the geographical level which it deems most appropriate, a maximum volume of each agricultural product, from among the products listed in Annex I to the TFEU, to quantify the annual supply requirements for the smaller Aegean islands.
3. The maximum volume of agricultural products referred to in the first subparagraph shall comprise also the volumes of those products required by undertakings packaging and processing products intended for the local market, for consignment to the rest of the Union or for export to third countries as part of regional trade or within the context of traditional trade flows. The maximum volume of the products referred to in the first subparagraph shall be established taking into account in particular the quantities of those products established in the supply forecast balance sheets in the previous programming period.
4. Support shall be granted to supply the smaller Aegean islands with Union products to ensure special supply requirements established in accordance with paragraph 2 in terms of price and quality, while maintaining the Union’s share in the supplies of those products.
5. No support shall be granted for the supply of products which have already benefited from the specific supply arrangements in another smaller Aegean islands.
6. Only products of sound, fair and marketable quality shall benefit from the specific supply arrangements.
7. In implementing the specific supply arrangements, Greece shall take account in particular of the need to ensure that existing local production is not destabilised nor obstructed in its development and of the requirement laid down in paragraph 5.

Or. en

Amendment 3306

Luke Ming Flanagan, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Sebastian Everding

on behalf of The Left Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 f (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20f
Specific supply arrangements.
1. Specific supply arrangements shall be established for the agricultural products listed in Annex I to the TFEU which are essential in the smaller Aegean islands for human consumption, for the manufacture of other products or as agricultural inputs.
2. Greece shall establish in its Plan, at the geographical level which it deems most appropriate, a maximum volume of each agricultural product, from among the products listed in Annex I to the TFEU, to quantify the annual supply requirements for the smaller Aegean islands.
3. The maximum volume of agricultural products referred to in the first subparagraph shall comprise also the volumes of those products required by undertakings packaging and processing products intended for the local market, for consignment to the rest of the Union or for export to third countries as part of regional trade or within the context of traditional trade flows. The maximum volume of the products referred to in the first subparagraph shall be established taking into account in particular the quantities of those products established in the supply forecast balance sheets in the previous programming period.
4. Support shall be granted to supply the smaller Aegean islands with Union products to ensure special supply requirements established in accordance with paragraph 2 in terms of price and quality, while maintaining the Union’s share in the supplies of those products.
5. No support shall be granted for the supply of products which have already benefited from the specific supply arrangements in another smaller Aegean islands.
6. Only products of sound, fair and marketable quality shall benefit from the specific supply arrangements.
7. In implementing the specific supply arrangements, Greece shall take account in particular of the need to ensure that existing local production is not destabilised nor obstructed in its development and of the requirement laid down in paragraph 5.

Or. en

Amendment 3307

Mireia Borrás Pabón

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 f (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20f.
Controls and penalties
1. For the specific supply arrangements, Greece shall conduct verifications by means of administrative, physical and on-the-spot checks.
2. The administrative checks carried out on the import, entry, export and dispatch of agricultural products shall be exhaustive and shall include cross-checks with the supporting documents. The physical checks conducted on the smaller Aegean islands affected on imports or entry of agricultural products shall be based on a representative sample amounting to a minimum of 5 % of the certificates and licenses.
3. In the case of measures to support the local production, Greece shall conduct verifications by means of administrative and on-the-spot checks.
4. Administrative checks shall be exhaustive and shall include cross-checks with, inter alia, data from the Integrated Administration and Control System.
5. Aid applicants for specific supply arrangements and support for local production shall be selected to undergo on-the-spot checks by the competent authority on the basis of a risk analysis and the representativeness of the aid applications submitted. the competent authorities shall perform on-the-spot checks by sampling, for each action, at least 5 % of aid applications. The sample shall also represent at least 5 % of the amounts covered by the aid for each action. In all appropriate cases, Greece shall make use of the Integrated Administration and Control System provided for in Article 20j (new) of this Regulation. Every on-the-spot check shall be the subject of an inspection report relating the details of the checks carried out.

Or. es

Amendment 3308

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 f (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20f.
Support for short food supply chains, local processing and direct sales
1. Member States may grant support for measures aimed at increasing the added value retained by agricultural holdings through the development of short food supply chains.
2. The support may encompass, in particular:
(a) the local processing of agricultural products;
(b) direct sales;
(c) agricultural retail trade;
(d) marginal, local and restricted activities;
(e) the establishment and development of local food markets;
(f) the development of infrastructure to facilitate local processing and sales;
(g) the promotion of local and regional products.
3. Member States may grant support for joint ventures implemented by farmers, cooperatives and producer organisations.
The support shall help to shorten the food supply chain, increase farmers’ income, improve food security and develop areas.

Or. pl

Amendment 3309

Barry Cowen, Asger Christensen, Michal Wiezik, Christine Singer, Elsi Katainen, Jérémy Decerle

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 f (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20f
System for the identification of beneficiaries
The system for recording the identity of each beneficiary of the interventions and measures referred to in Article 5 paragraph 1 shall guarantee that all applications submitted by the same beneficiary can be identified as such.

Or. en

Amendment 3310

Mireia Borrás Pabón

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 g (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20g.
European and national CAP Network
1. Each Member State shall, at the latest 12 months after the approval by the Commission of the Plan, establish and support a national network for CAP (‘national CAP network’) for the networking of organisations and administrations, advisors, researchers and other innovation actors, and other actors in the field of agriculture and rural development at national level. The national CAP networks shall build on the existing networking experience and practices in the Member States.
2. The Commission shall create a European network for the Common Agricultural Policy (‘European CAP network’) to link national networks, organisations, and administrations in the field of agriculture and rural development at EU level.
3. The objectives of the national and European CAP networks shall be to: (a) involve stakeholders in the design and implementation of the CAP interventions of the NRP Plan; (b) support Member State administrations in implementing the CAP interventions; (c) improve the quality of the NRP Plans and in particular their measures related to agriculture, and disseminate results; (d) foster innovation, peer-to-peer learning, and knowledge-sharing; (e) enhance monitoring and evaluation capacities; (f) disseminate information on the CAP and funding opportunities; (g) contribute to the subsequent development of the CAP.
4. To achieve the objectives referred to in paragraph 6, the networks shall: (a) collect, analyse, and disseminate information on good practices concerning the CAP as well as analysis on developments in agriculture and rural areas; (b) build capacity for the authorities in the Member States and other actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and assessment of the NRP Plans concerning the CAP; (c) facilitate exchanges, peer-to-peer learning, and networking, including, where relevant, exchanges with networks in third countries; (d) support the networking of funded cooperation projects, such as local action groups under Article 18a [LEADER] of this Regulation and EIP-AGRI operational groups referred to in Article 19 of this Regulation and promote links to other EU-funded strategies.
5. The European CAP network and the national CAP networks shall collaborate and carry out joint activities in the achievement of the objectives referred to in paragraph 3. The European CAP network shall use a distinctive visual identity.

Or. es

Amendment 3311

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 g (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20g
Support for local agricultural products
1. Greece shall grant support for production, processing, marketing and transport of raw and processed agricultural products in the smaller Aegean islands.
2. Greece shall design the interventions so as to ensure the continuity and the development of local agricultural production in the smaller Aegean islands.
3. Greece shall provide for a fair distribution of payments. Greece may cap the amount of the support to be granted to a beneficiary in a given calendar year or use degressive payments.
4. Greece may grant support for marketing of products outside of the region in which they are produced. That support shall not exceed 10% of the value of the production marketed, delivered to a destination zone in a given calendar year.
5. When a Plan is amended in accordance with Article 24 of the NRP Regulation [amendments to Plans], beneficiaries affected by the exceptional natural disaster or the severe meteorological event may continue to benefit from support in the form of measures to support production, processing or sale provided for in paragraph 1 irrespective of their level of activity throughout the restoration period, but subject to a formal commitment to restore their agricultural production capacity.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 44)

Amendment 3312

Luke Ming Flanagan, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Sebastian Everding

on behalf of The Left Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 g (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20g
Support for local agricultural products.
1. Greece shall grant support for production, processing, marketing and transport of raw and processed agricultural products in the smaller Aegean islands.
2. Greece shall design the interventions so as to ensure the continuity and the development of local agricultural production in the smaller Aegean islands.
3. Greece shall provide for a fair distribution of payments. Greece may cap the amount of the support to be granted to a beneficiary in a given calendar year or use degressive payments.
4. Greece may grant support for marketing of products outside of the region in which they are produced. That support shall not exceed 10% of the value of the production marketed, delivered to a destination zone in a given calendar year.
5. When a Plan is amended in accordance with Article 24 of the NRP Regulation [amendments to Plans], beneficiaries affected by the exceptional natural disaster or the severe meteorological event may continue to benefit from support in the form of measures to support production, processing or sale provided for in paragraph 1 irrespective of their level of activity throughout the restoration period, but subject to a formal commitment to restore their agricultural production capacity;

Or. en

Amendment 3313

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 g (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20g.
Support for soil analysis and fertilisation advice
1. Member States may grant support for measures aimed at improving soil quality and efficient nutrient management.
2. The support may encompass, in particular:
(a) the performance of soil analyses;
(b) the drawing up of fertilisation plans;
(c) fertilisation advice;
(d) the expansion of laboratories performing soil analyses;
(e) the implementation of soil quality monitoring systems;
(f) training on efficient nutrient management.
3. Member States may finance all or part of the costs of soil analyses performed for the purpose of agricultural activities.
4. The support shall help to improve soil fertility, protect natural resources, limit nutrient losses and increase the efficiency of agricultural production.

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Amendment 3314

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 g (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20g
Support for local agricultural products
When a Plan is amended in accordance with Article 24 of the NRP Regulation [amendments to Plans], beneficiaries affected by the exceptional natural disaster or the severe meteorological event may continue to benefit from support in the form of measures to support production, processing or sale provided for in paragraph 1 irrespective of their level of activity throughout the restoration period, but subject to a formal commitment to restore their agricultural production capacity.

Or. en

Amendment 3315

Barry Cowen, Asger Christensen, Christine Singer, Elsi Katainen, Jérémy Decerle

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 g (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20g
Control and penalty system
Member States shall set up a control and penalty system referred to in Article 20b(3), point (f). Member States, through the paying agencies or the bodies delegated by them, shall annually carry out administrative checks on the aid application and payment claims to verify legality and regularity in accordance with Article 58(2), point (2). Those checks shall be supplemented by on-the-spot checks, which may be executed remotely through the use of technology.

Or. en

Amendment 3316

Mireia Borrás Pabón

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 h (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20h.
Integrated Administration and Control System
1. Each Member State shall set up and operate an integrated administration and control system (the ‘integrated system’). It shall apply to the interventions listed in Article 35(1), points (a) to (g) of the NRP Regulation.
2. To the extent necessary, the integrated system shall also be used for the management of farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation, and, in all appropriate cases, for the measures referred to in Title VI [provisions on support for outermost regions] of the NRP Regulation.
3. The integrated system shall comprise the following elements:
(a) an agricultural monitoring system (AMS). The AMS is a procedure of regular and systematic observation, monitoring and assessment of agricultural activities and practices by technological means, including Copernicus Sentinels satellite data;
(b) a geo-spatial and animal-based application system (GSA). The GSA is a digital application tool for the beneficiary to declare the agricultural activities and practices of the holding;
(c) a land-parcel identification system (LPIS);
(d) a system for the identification and registration of animals;
(e) a system for the identification of beneficiaries of the interventions listed in paragraphs 1 and 2;
(f) a control and penalty system. Each year, Member States shall carry out administrative checks on the aid application and payment claims to verify legality and regularity. These checks shall be supplemented by on-the-spot checks, which may be carried out remotely using technology. However, Member States may choose not to carry out on-the-spot checks where all or part of the admissibility conditions for measures are overseen under the agriculture monitoring system referred to in point (a) of this Article.
4. Member States shall annually assess the quality of the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3, points (a), (b) and (c), in accordance with the methodology set up at Union level. Where the assessment reveals deficiencies in the elements of the integrated system, Member States shall adopt appropriate remedial actions or, failing which, the Commission shall request that they set up a roadmap detailing the timeline for implementing the outstanding remedial actions. Member States shall submit to the Commission an assessment report and, where appropriate, the remedial actions and the timetable for their implementation by 15 March following the calendar year concerned.
5. The Commission shall supply the satellite data required for the agriculture monitoring system free of charge to the authorities responsible for the system or to suppliers of services authorised by those authorities to represent them. For the purpose of the quality assessment of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 4, the Commission shall provide them, free of charge, with the necessary ‘very high resolution’ imagery. The Commission shall remain the owner of the satellite data and imagery.
6. The European land monitoring system shall include at least the data related to the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3 and, where applicable, data shared by farmers with public authorities in accordance with Article 21 of this Regulation. The Member States may provide additional services to enhance the European land monitoring system with other sources of information to the benefit of the farmers.
7. When it is strictly necessary to ensure that the integrated system provided for in this chapter is applied in an efficient, coherent and non-discriminatory manner, thus protecting the financial interests of the EU, the Commission is authorised to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 23, which complement this Regulation with:
(a) rules on the methodology set up at Union level for the annual quality assessment of the elements of the integrated system, referred to in paragraph 3, points (a), (b) and (c); (b) rules on the LPIS, referred to in paragraph 3, point (c).
8. The Commission may adopt implementing acts laying down rules on:
(a) the form and content of, as well as the method for sending or making available to the Commission:
(i) the assessment report referred to in paragraph 4;
(ii) the remedial actions provided by Member States;
(b) basic features of, and rules on:
(i) the AMS;
(ii) the GSA;
(iii) the LPIS;
(iv) the European land monitoring system. 9. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 25(3).

Or. es

Amendment 3317

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 h (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20h
Controls and penalties
1. For the specific supply arrangements, Greece shall conduct verifications by means of administrative, physical and on-the-spot checks.
2. The administrative checks carried out on the import, entry, export and dispatch of agricultural products shall be exhaustive and shall involve cross-checks with the supporting documents. The physical checks carried out in smaller Aegean islands concerned on the import or entry of agricultural products shall involve a representative sample amounting to at least 5 % of the licences and certificates.
3. In the case of measures to support the local production, Greece shall conduct verifications by means of administrative and on-the-spot checks.
4. Administrative checks shall be exhaustive and shall include cross checks with, inter alia, data from the integrated administration and control.
5. Aid applicants for specific supply arrangements and support the local production shall be selected to undergo on-the-spot checks by the competent authority on the basis of a risk analysis and the representativeness of the aid applications submitted, the competent authorities shall perform on-the-spot checks by sampling, for each action, at least 5 % of aid applications. The sample shall also represent at least 5 % of the amounts covered by the aid for each action.
In all appropriate cases, Greece shall make use of the Integrated Administration and Control System provided for in Article 20j(new) of this regulation.
Every on-the-spot check shall be the subject of an inspection report relating the details of the checks carried out.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 45)

Amendment 3318

Luke Ming Flanagan, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Sebastian Everding

on behalf of The Left Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 h (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20h
Controls and penalties.
1. For the specific supply arrangements, Greece shall conduct verifications by means of administrative, physical and on-the-spot checks.
2. The administrative checks carried out on the import, entry, export and dispatch of agricultural products shall be exhaustive and shall involve cross-checks with the supporting documents. The physical checks carried out in smaller Aegean islands concerned on the import or entry of agricultural products shall involve a representative sample amounting to at least 5 % of the licences and certificates.
3. In the case of measures to support the local production, Greece shall conduct verifications by means of administrative and on-the-spot checks.
4. Administrative checks shall be exhaustive and shall include cross checks with, inter alia, data from the integrated administration and control.
5. Aid applicants for specific supply arrangements and support the local production shall be selected to undergo on-the-spot checks by the competent authority on the basis of a risk analysis and the representativeness of the aid applications submitted, the competent authorities shall perform on-the-spot checks by sampling, for each action, at least 5 % of aid applications. The sample shall also represent at least 5 % of the amounts covered by the aid for each action. In all appropriate cases, Greece shall make use of the Integrated Administration and Control System provided for in Article 20j(new) of this Regulation. Every on-the-spot check shall be the subject of an inspection report relating the details of the checks carried out.

Or. en

Amendment 3319

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 h (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20h
Controls and penalties
1. The administrative checks carried out on the import, entry, export and dispatch of agricultural products shall be exhaustive and shall involve cross-checks with the supporting documents. The physical checks carried out in smaller Aegean islands concerned on the import or entry of agricultural products shall involve a representative sample amounting to at least 5 % of the licences and certificates.
2. Administrative checks shall be exhaustive and shall include cross checks with, inter alia, data from the integrated administration and control.
3. Aid applicants for specific supply arrangements and support the local production shall be selected to undergo on-the-spot checks by the competent authority on the basis of a risk analysis and the representativeness of the aid applications submitted, the competent authorities shall perform on-the-spot checks by sampling, for each action, at least 5 % of aid applications. The sample shall also represent at least 5 % of the amounts covered by the aid for each action.
In all appropriate cases, Greece shall make use of the Integrated Administration and Control System provided for in Article 20j(new) of this Regulation.
Every on-the-spot check shall be the subject of an inspection report relating the details of the checks carried out.

Or. en

Amendment 3320

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 i (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20i
European and national CAP Network
1. Each Member State shall, at the latest 12 months after the approval by the Commission of the Plan, establish and support a national network for CAP (‘national CAP network’) for the networking of organisations and administrations, advisors, researchers and other innovation actors, and other actors in the field of agriculture and rural development at national level. The national CAP networks shall build on the existing networking experience and practices in the Member States.
2. The Commission shall establish a European network for the Common Agricultural Policy (‘European CAP network’) to link national networks, organisations, and administrations in the field of agriculture and rural development at Union level.
3. The objectives of the national and European CAP networks shall be to:
(a) involve stakeholders in the design and implementation of the CAP interventions of the NRP Plan;
(b) support Member State administrations in implementing the CAP interventions;
(c) improve the quality of the NRP Plans and in particular their measures related to agriculture and disseminate results;
(d) foster innovation, peer-to-peer learning, and knowledge-sharing;
(e) enhance monitoring and evaluation capacities;
(f) disseminate information on the CAP and funding opportunities;
(g) contribute to further development of the CAP.
4. To achieve the objectives referred to in paragraph 6, the networks shall:
(a) collect, analyse, and disseminate information on good practices concerning the CAP as well as analysis on developments in agriculture and rural areas;
(b) build capacity for Member States’ administrations and other actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the NRP Plans concerning the CAP;
(c) facilitate exchanges, peer-to-peer learning, and networking, including where relevant exchanges with networks in third countries;
(d) support the networking of funded cooperation projects, such as local action groups, EIP-AGRI operational groups referred to in Article 19 of this Regulation (and promote links to other Union-funded strategies.
5. The European CAP network and the national CAP networks shall collaborate and carry out joint activities in the achievement of the objectives referred to in paragraph 3. The European CAP network shall use a distinctive visual identity.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 57)

Amendment 3321

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 i (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20i
European and national CAP Network
1. Each Member State shall, at the latest 12 months after the approval by the Commission of the Plan, establish and support a national network for CAP (‘national CAP network’) for the networking of organisations and administrations, advisors, researchers and other innovation actors, and other actors in the field of agriculture and rural development at national level. The national CAP networks shall build on the existing networking experience and practices in the Member States.
2. The Commission shall establish a European network for the Common Agricultural Policy (‘European CAP network’) to link national networks, organisations, and administrations in the field of agriculture and rural development at Union level.
3. The objectives of the national and European CAP networks shall be to:
(a) involve stakeholders in the design and implementation of the CAP interventions of the NRP Plan;
(b) support Member State administrations in implementing the CAP interventions;
(c) improve the quality of the NRP Plans and in particular their measures related to agriculture and disseminate results;
(d) foster innovation, peer-to-peer learning, and knowledge-sharing;
(e) enhance monitoring and evaluation capacities;
(f) disseminate information on the CAP and funding opportunities;
(g) contribute to further development of the CAP.
4. To achieve the objectives referred to in paragraph 6, the networks shall:
(a) collect, analyse, and disseminate information on good practices concerning the CAP as well as analysis on developments in agriculture and rural areas;
(b) build capacity for Member States’ administrations and other actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the NRP Plans concerning the CAP;
(c) facilitate exchanges, peer-to-peer learning, and networking, including where relevant exchanges with networks in third countries;
(d) support the networking of funded cooperation projects, such as local action groups under Article 18a [LEADER] of this Regulation, EIP-AGRI operational groups referred to in Article 19 of this Regulation (and promote links to other Union-funded strategies.
5. The European CAP network and the national CAP networks shall collaborate and carry out joint activities in the achievement of the objectives referred to in paragraph 3. The European CAP network shall use a distinctive visual identity.

Or. en

Amendment 3322

Luke Ming Flanagan, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Sebastian Everding, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 i (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20i
European and national CAP Network.
1. Each Member State shall, at the latest 12 months after the approval by the Commission of the Plan, establish and support a national network for CAP (‘national CAP network’) for the networking of organisations and administrations, advisors, researchers and other innovation actors, and other actors in the field of agriculture and rural development at national level. The national CAP networks shall build on the existing networking experience and practices in the Member States.
2. The Commission shall establish a European network for the Common Agricultural Policy (‘European CAP network’) to link national networks, organisations, and administrations in the field of agriculture and rural development at Union level.
3. The objectives of the national and European CAP networks shall be to:
(a) involve stakeholders in the design and implementation of the CAP interventions of the NRP Plan;
(b) support Member State administrations in implementing the CAP interventions;
(c) improve the quality of the NRP Plans and in particular their measures related to agriculture and disseminate results;
(d) foster innovation, peer-to-peer learning, and knowledge-sharing;
(e) enhance monitoring and evaluation capacities;
(f) disseminate information on the CAP and funding opportunities;
(g) contribute to further development of the CAP.
4. To achieve the objectives referred to in paragraph 6, the networks shall:
(a) collect, analyse, and disseminate information on good practices concerning the CAP as well as analysis on developments in agriculture and rural areas;
(b) build capacity for Member States’ administrations and other actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the NRP Plans concerning the CAP;
(c) facilitate exchanges, peer-to-peer learning, and networking, including where relevant exchanges with networks in third countries;
(d) support the networking of funded cooperation projects, such as local action groups under Article 18a [LEADER] of this Regulation, EIP-AGRI operational groups referred to in Article 19 of this Regulation (and promote links to other Union-funded strategies.
5. The European CAP network and the national CAP networks shall collaborate and carry out joint activities in the achievement of the objectives referred to in paragraph 3. The European CAP network shall use a distinctive visual identity.

Or. en

Amendment 3323

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 j (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20j
Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS)
1. Each Member State shall set up and operate an integrated administration and control system (the ‘integrated system’). It shall apply to the interventions listed in Article 5(1), points (a) to (g) of that Regulation.
2. To the extent necessary, the integrated system shall also be used for the management of farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation, and in all appropriate cases to the measures referred to in Title VI [provisions on support for outermost regions] of the NRP Regulation.
3. The integrated system shall comprise the following elements:
(a) an agriculture monitoring system (AMS). The AMS is a procedure of regular and systematic observation, tracking and assessment of agricultural activities and practices by technological means, including Copernicus Sentinels satellite data;
(b) a geo-spatial and animal-based application system (GSA). The GSA is a digital application tool for the beneficiary to declare agricultural activities and practices of the holding;
(c) a land parcel identification system (LPIS);
(d) a system for the identification and registration of animals;
(e) a system for the identification of beneficiaries of the interventions listed in paragraphs 1 and 2;
(f) a control and penalty system. Member States shall annually carry out administrative checks on the aid application and payment claims to verify legality and regularity. Those checks shall be supplemented by on-the-spot checks, which may be executed remotely with the use of technology. However, Member States may choose not to carry out on the spot checks where the eligibility conditions of measures are monitored under the agriculture monitoring system referred to in point (a) of this Article.
4. Member States shall annually assess the quality of the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3, points (a), (b) and (c), in accordance with the methodology set up at Union level.
Where the assessment reveals deficiencies in the elements of the integrated system, Member States shall adopt appropriate remedial actions or, failing that, shall be requested by the Commission to set up a roadmap detailing the timeline for implementing the outstanding remedial actions. An assessment report and, where appropriate, the remedial actions and the timetable for their implementation shall be submitted to the Commission by 15 February following the calendar year concerned.
5. The Commission shall supply the satellite data, required for the agriculture monitoring system, free of charge to the authorities competent for the agriculture monitoring system or to suppliers of services authorised by those authorities to represent them. For the purpose of the quality assessment of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 4, the Commission shall provide them, free of charge, the necessary Very High Resolution imagery. The Commission shall remain the owner of the satellite data and imagery.
6. Without prejudice to the responsibilities of the Member States for the implementation and application of the integrated system Member States shall establish the European land monitoring system. It shall provide information to farmers to support sustainable management of their holdings. Furthermore, it shall provide data for CAP policy development and monitoring, and promote sharing of farm sustainability data.
7. The European land monitoring system shall comprise at least the data related to the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3 and, where applicable, data shared by farmers with public authorities in accordance with Article 21 of this regulation. The Member States may provide additional services to enhance the European land monitoring system with other sources of information to the benefit of the farmers.
8. Where necessary to ensure that the integrated system provided for in this Chapter is implemented in an efficient, coherent and non-discriminatory way which protects the financial interests of the Union, the Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 23, supplementing this Regulation with:
(a) rules on the methodology set up at Union level for the annual quality assessment of the elements of the integrated system, referred to in paragraph (3), points (a), (b) and (c);
(b) rules on the LPIS, referred to in paragraph 3, point (c).
9. The Commission may adopt implementing acts laying down rules on:
(a) the form and content of, and arrangements for transmitting or making available to the Commission of:
(i) the assessment report referred to in paragraph (4);
(ii) the remedial actions provided by Member States;
(b) basic features of, and rules on:
(i) AMS;
(ii) GSA;
(iii) LPIS
(iv) the European land monitoring system.
10. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 25(3) [committee procedure, examination procedure].

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 70)

Amendment 3324

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 j (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article20j
Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS)
1. Each Member State shall set up and operate an integrated administration and control system (the ‘integrated system’). It shall apply to the interventions listed in Article 35(1), points (a) to (g) of the NRP Regulation.
2. To the extent necessary, the integrated system shall also be used for the management of farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation, and in all appropriate cases to the measures referred to in Title VI [provisions on support for outermost regions] of the NRP Regulation.
3. The integrated system shall comprise the following elements:
(a) an agriculture monitoring system (AMS). The AMS is a procedure of regular and systematic observation, tracking and assessment of agricultural activities and practices by technological means, including Copernicus Sentinels satellite data;
(b) a geo-spatial and animal-based application system (GSA). The GSA is a digital application tool for the beneficiary to declare agricultural activities and practices of the holding;
(c) a land parcel identification system (LPIS);
(d) a system for the identification and registration of animals;
(e) a system for the identification of beneficiaries of the interventions listed in paragraphs 1 and 2;
(f) a control and penalty system. Member States shall annually carry out administrative checks on the aid application and payment claims to verify legality and regularity. Those checks shall be supplemented by on-the-spot checks, which may be executed remotely with the use of technology. However, Member States may choose not to carry out on the spot checks where all or part of the eligibility conditions of measures are monitored under the agriculture monitoring system referred to in point (a) of this Article.
4. Member States shall annually assess the quality of the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3, points (a), (b) and (c), in accordance with the methodology set up at Union level. Where the assessment reveals deficiencies in the elements of the integrated system, Member States shall adopt appropriate remedial actions or, failing which, the Commission shall request that they set up a roadmap detailing the timeline for implementing the outstanding remedial actions.
An assessment report and, where appropriate, the remedial actions and the timetable for their implementation shall be submitted to the Commission by 15 March following the calendar year concerned.
5. The Commission shall supply the satellite data, required for the agriculture monitoring system, free of charge to the authorities competent for the agriculture monitoring system or to suppliers of services authorised by those authorities to represent them. For the purpose of the quality assessment of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 4, the Commission shall provide them, free of charge, with the necessary ‘very high resolution’ imagery. The Commission shall remain the owner of the satellite data and imagery.
6. The European land monitoring system shall include at least the data related to the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3 and, where applicable, data shared by farmers with public authorities in accordance with Article 21 of this Regulation. The Member States may provide additional services to enhance the European land monitoring system with other sources of information to the benefit of the farmers.
7. Where necessary to ensure that the integrated system provided for in this Chapter is implemented in an efficient, coherent and non-discriminatory way which protects the financial interests of the Union, the Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 23, to supplement this Regulation with:
(a) rules on the methodology set up at Union level for the annual quality assessment of the elements of the integrated system, referred to in paragraph (3), points (a), (b) and (c); and
(b) rules on the LPIS, referred to in paragraph 3, point (c).
8. The Commission may adopt implementing acts laying down rules on:
(a) the form and content of, and arrangements for transmitting or making available to the Commission of:
(i) the assessment report referred to in paragraph (4);
(ii) the remedial actions provided by Member States;
(b) basic features of, and rules on:
(i) AMS;
(ii) GSA;
(iii) LPIS;
(iv) the European land monitoring system.
9. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 25(3).

Or. en

Amendment 3325

Luke Ming Flanagan, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Sebastian Everding, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 20 j (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 20j
Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS).
1. Each Member State shall set up and operate an integrated administration and control system (the ‘integrated system’). It shall apply to the interventions listed in Article 35(1), points (a) to (g) of the NRP Regulation.
2. To the extent necessary, the integrated system shall also be used for the management of farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation, and in all appropriate cases to the measures referred to in Title VI [provisions on support for outermost regions] of the NRP Regulation.
3. The integrated system shall comprise the following elements:
(a) an agriculture monitoring system (AMS). The AMS is a procedure of regular and systematic observation, tracking and assessment of agricultural activities and practices by technological means, including Copernicus Sentinels satellite data;
(b) a geo-spatial and animal-based application system (GSA). The GSA is a digital application tool for the beneficiary to declare agricultural activities and practices of the holding;
(c) a land parcel identification system (LPIS);
(d) a system for the identification and registration of animals;
(e) a system for the identification of beneficiaries of the interventions listed in paragraphs 1 and 2;
(f) a control and penalty system. Member States shall annually carry out administrative checks on the aid application and payment claims to verify legality and regularity. Those checks shall be supplemented by on-the-spot checks, which may be executed remotely with the use of technology. However, Member States may choose not to carry out on the spot checks where all or part of the eligibility conditions of measures are monitored under the agriculture monitoring system referred to in point (a) of this Article.
4. Member States shall annually assess the quality of the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3, points (a), (b) and (c), in accordance with the methodology set up at Union level. Where the assessment reveals deficiencies in the elements of the integrated system, Member States shall adopt appropriate remedial actions or, failing which, the Commission shall request that they set up a roadmap detailing the timeline for implementing the outstanding remedial actions. An assessment report and, where appropriate, the remedial actions and the timetable for their implementation shall be submitted to the Commission by 15 March following the calendar year concerned.
5. The Commission shall supply the satellite data, required for the agriculture monitoring system, free of charge to the authorities competent for the agriculture monitoring system or to suppliers of services authorised by those authorities to represent them. For the purpose of the quality assessment of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 4, the Commission shall provide them, free of charge, with the necessary ‘very high resolution’ imagery. The Commission shall remain the owner of the satellite data and imagery.
6. The European land monitoring system shall include at least the data related to the elements of the integrated system referred to in paragraph 3 and, where applicable, data shared by farmers with public authorities in accordance with Article 21 of this Regulation. The Member States may provide additional services to enhance the European land monitoring system with other sources of information to the benefit of the farmers.
7. Where necessary to ensure that the integrated system provided for in this Chapter is implemented in an efficient, coherent and non-discriminatory way which protects the financial interests of the Union, the Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 23, supplementing this Regulation with:
(a) rules on the methodology set up at Union level for the annual quality assessment of the elements of the integrated system, referred to in paragraph (3), points (a), (b) and (c);
(b) rules on the LPIS, referred to in paragraph 3, point (c).
8. The Commission may adopt implementing acts laying down rules on:
(a) the form and content of, and arrangements for transmitting or making available to the Commission of:
(i) the assessment report referred to in paragraph (4);
(ii) the remedial actions provided by Member States;
(b) basic features of, and rules on:
(i) AMS;
(ii) GSA;
(iii) LPIS
(iv) the European land monitoring system.
9. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 25(3) [committee procedure, examination procedure].

Or. en

Amendment 3326

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – title

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Authority in charge of data governance under the CAPInteroperability of databases and authority in charge of data governance under the CAP

Or. en

Justification

Lack of interoperability is major source of complexity in the farmer-facing CAP and IACS interface; improving interoperability is a major way to simplify policy implementation, rather than deregulating and losing policy deliverables that would improve lives and livelihoods. Also, having rejected the EP and COM positions to engage with the issue in the "simplification" trilogues of autumn 2025, MS promised to deal with interoperability this time around.

Amendment 3327

Stefan Köhler, Monika Hohlmeier, Tomáš Zdechovský, Marion Walsmann, Norbert Lins

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – title

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Authority in charge of data governance under the CAPData governance under the CAP

Or. en

Amendment 3328

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph -1 (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
-1. -1. In the interest of simplifying the interface beneficiaries interact with and the information they must provide to access support, and to enforce as far as possible the one check per year, per beneficiary principle, Member States shall invest to implement interoperability of databases. The data fields to be integrated and made interoperable shall reflect the objectives of the CAP and CAP related payments and interventions, combining IACS, the land parcel identification system (LPIS-GIS) and component layers comprising environmental, biodiversity and landscape level information, with information for monitoring of natural resources linked to agriculture and forests, including soil and water.
0. The Commission and European Investment Bank (EIB) shall make available grants and loans for Member States to invest into updating and make their information systems more effective and interoperable, as well as technical assistance to the Member States from the Commission‘s JRC.

Or. en

Justification

MS bear the cost of IACS themselves, yet to update systems in order simplify procedures and minimise the admin effort of farmers, reduce the need to ask or gather information, this needs investment to increase interoperability between databases. Imagine that with proper interoperability, the majority of on the spot checks could be dispensed with, or application forms could be automatically generated based on the kind of land the farmer farms or what is on it, with farmer admin burden reduced to ticking from a menu of payment options.

Amendment 3329

Arash Saeidi, Luke Ming Flanagan, Sebastian Everding, Emma Fourreau

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. Each Member State shall designate one authority responsible for taking or coordinating actions to achieve and maintain national and cross-border interoperability between information systems used for the implementation, administration, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP for the benefit of farmers and other CAP beneficiaries. For the purposes of this Article, interoperability means the ability of information systems to interact with each other by sharing data by means of electronic communication.1. Each Member State shall designate one independent and public authority responsible for taking or coordinating actions to achieve and maintain national and cross-border interoperability between information systems used for the implementation, administration, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP for the benefit of farmers and other CAP beneficiaries. To guarantee sovereignty over agricultural data and avoid conflicts of interest, Member States shall ensure that this authority is not a private entity or a body with structural or financial links to the agroindustrial sector, to multinational technology companies or to private consultancy firms. It shall be prohibited to delegate or outsource to private actors the core regulatory and data management tasks of this authority. For the purposes of this Article, interoperability means the ability of information systems to interact with each other by sharing data by means of electronic communication.

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Amendment 3330

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. Each Member State shall designate one authority responsible for taking or coordinating actions to achieve and maintain national and cross-border interoperability between information systems used for the implementation, administration, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP for the benefit of farmers and other CAP beneficiaries. For the purposes of this Article, interoperability means the ability of information systems to interact with each other by sharing data by means of electronic communication.1. Each Member State shall designate one authority responsible for taking or coordinating actions to achieve and maintain national and cross-border interoperability between information systems used for the implementation, administration, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP for the benefit of farmers and other CAP beneficiaries, including processing, collating and sharing information, data and records from parcel to inter-member state level, to the extent necessary only to implement, verify or simplify application of union law . For the purposes of this Article, interoperability means the ability of information systems to interact with each other by sharing data by means of electronic communication. Beneficiaries shall if applicable retain ownership of their raw data, and data coordination shall protect the privacy of beneficiaries, with coordination rather using anonymised unique identifers.

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Amendment 3331

Dario Nardella, André Franqueira Rodrigues, Cristina Maestre, Eric Sargiacomo, Stefano Bonaccini, Claire Fita, Marko Vešligaj, Elena Sancho Murillo, Maria Noichl, Camilla Laureti

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. Each Member State shall designate one authority responsible for taking or coordinating actions to achieve and maintain national and cross-border interoperability between information systems used for the implementation, administration, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP for the benefit of farmers and other CAP beneficiaries. For the purposes of this Article, interoperability means the ability of information systems to interact with each other by sharing data by means of electronic communication.1. Each Member State shall designate one authority responsible for taking or coordinating actions to achieve and maintain national and cross-border interoperability between information systems used for the implementation, administration, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP for the benefit of farmers and other CAP beneficiaries. Such authority shall act on the basis of existing administrative structures and ensure effective coordination with the paying agencies. For the purposes of this Article, interoperability means the ability of information systems to interact with each other by sharing data by means of electronic communication.

Or. en

Amendment 3332

Stefan Köhler, Monika Hohlmeier, Tomáš Zdechovský, Marion Walsmann, Norbert Lins, Lena Düpont

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
As part of this data collection the authority responsible of each Member State shall also aggregate the information on ownership and controls structures of beneficiaries as outlined in Article 6 (5).

Or. en

Amendment 3333

Veronika Vrecionová

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1a. Member States may use satellite-based monitoring systems to verify the establishment and maintenance of environmental practices and cover crops. Where Member States set calendar-based agrotechnical deadlines for sowing or other cultivation operations as a condition for support under this Regulation, they shall provide for flexibility in those deadlines where adverse weather conditions, in particular drought or excess soil moisture, prevent timely sowing. Member States may use the satellite-based monitoring systems referred to in paragraph 1a to verify actual crop emergence as an alternative means of demonstrating compliance with cultivation requirements, in place of compliance with the calendar deadline.

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Amendment 3334

Dario Nardella, André Franqueira Rodrigues, Cristina Maestre, Eric Sargiacomo, Stefano Bonaccini, Claire Fita, Marko Vešligaj, Elena Sancho Murillo, Maria Noichl, Camilla Laureti

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1a. When a Member State requires farmers to use interoperable digital information systems, it shall, with the support of the Commission, ensure that:
(a) digital tools required for compliance are accessible and affordable for all farmers;
(b) appropriate technical support and training opportunities for farmers are available, including through advisory services;
(c) arrangements are in place for protecting individual data, including aggregation and anonymisation.

Or. en

Amendment 3335

Nina Carberry, Maria Walsh

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1a. Calls for a clear Union metric to identify and track CAP-related rural spending, ensuring that support for rural areas is measurable, comparable across Member States and visible to farmers and rural communities;

Or. en

Amendment 3336

Carmen Crespo Díaz, Elena Nevado del Campo, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(ba) the guarantees that apply to the protection, aggregation, anonymisation and secondary use of agricultural data, ensuring that the exchange of data does not generate additional administrative burdens, respects commercial confidentiality and allows farmers, cooperatives and other beneficiaries to retain sufficient control over the data relating to their activity.

Or. es

Justification

The interoperability of data may contribute to simplification, but only if information on farmers, cooperatives and beneficiaries is adequately protected.

Amendment 3337

Carlo Fidanza, Waldemar Buda

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) identification of possible synergies with other Union and national interoperability initiatives.(b) (b) identification of possible synergies with other Union and national interoperability initiatives, including the involvement of bodies or entities designated in accordance with national law for the collection and transmission of additional data necessary for full interoperability.

Or. en

Justification

Data now constitutes a fundamental source of information for guiding public policy and evaluating its outcomes. In this context, the accuracy and reliability of data are essential requirements, and it is strategically important to provide for the possibility of entrusting data collection to entities already recognised under national law, such as bodies or organisations involved in implementing measures relating to the common agricultural policy, not least with a view to simplifying relations between agricultural enterprises and national authorities.

Amendment 3338

Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(b) identification of possible synergies with other Union and national interoperability initiatives.(b) identification of possible synergies with other Union and national interoperability initiatives, including the involvement of bodies or entities designated under national law for the purposes of collecting and transmitting additional data with a view to achieving full interoperability.

Or. it

Justification

Data is a vital resource for shaping public policy and assessing its impact, and must therefore be accurate and reliable. Accordingly, it would be of strategic interest to entrust the role of data collection to entities that are already recognised under national law. This would include bodies or organisations involved in implementing CAP measures, including with a view to facilitating relations between agricultural undertakings and national authorities.

Amendment 3339

Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Gilles Pennelle, Valérie Deloge, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Csaba Dömötör, Tomáš Kubín, Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(ba) (c) modalities for individual data protection, including its aggregation and anonymization.

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Amendment 3340

Daniel Buda, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(ba) methods of protecting personal data, including aggregation and anonymisation.

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Amendment 3341

Barry Cowen, Asger Christensen, Emma Wiesner, Christine Singer, Elsi Katainen, Jérémy Decerle

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(ba) (c) Modalities for individual data protection, including its aggregation and anonymisation.

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Amendment 3342

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(ba) (c) modalities for individual data protection, including its aggregation and anonymization.

Or. en

Justification

System should be voluntary. There is a need to ensure more clarity when it comes to the rules governing data access, individual data protection (aggregation, anonymisation) and secondary use of farm-level data as well as preventing its misuse. This clarification would need to be provided for as early on as the basic act. As already mentioned in point 3.8, as a principle, any data collection system should respect strict data protection rules and business confidentiality, avoid unnecessary administrative burden, ensure farmers retain control over the use of their data as per the EU Code of Conduct on Agricultural Data Sharing and the Data Governance Act. Digitalisation must reduce the administrative burden on farmers and cooperatives and farmers organisations already play an important role in this regard.

Aspects with a direct impact on CAP implementation and on farmers such as these need to be part of the basic act. Whenever this is not possible, that implementing acts would be more appropriate than delegated acts, but they should only be used when such aspects cannot be specified in the basic act.

Amendment 3343

Katarína Roth Neveďalová, Erik Kaliňák

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
(ba) modalities for individual data protection, including its aggregation and anonymization.

Or. en

Amendment 3344

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
To the extent possible, Member States shall base their assessment of needs and the design of the measures on the principle that data is collected only once and re-used.deleted

Or. en

Justification

System should be voluntary. There is a need to ensure more clarity when it comes to the rules governing data access, individual data protection (aggregation, anonymisation) and secondary use of farm-level data as well as preventing its misuse. This clarification would need to be provided for as early on as the basic act. As already mentioned in point 3.8, as a principle, any data collection system should respect strict data protection rules and business confidentiality, avoid unnecessary administrative burden, ensure farmers retain control over the use of their data as per the EU Code of Conduct on Agricultural Data Sharing and the Data Governance Act. Digitalisation must reduce the administrative burden on farmers and cooperatives and farmers organisations already play an important role in this regard.

Aspects with a direct impact on CAP implementation and on farmers such as these need to be part of the basic act. Whenever this is not possible, that implementing acts would be more appropriate than delegated acts, but they should only be used when such aspects cannot be specified in the basic act.

Amendment 3345

Katarína Roth Neveďalová, Erik Kaliňák

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
To the extent possible, Member States shall base their assessment of needs and the design of the measures on the principle that data is collected only once and re-used.deleted

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Amendment 3346

Dario Nardella, André Franqueira Rodrigues, Cristina Maestre, Eric Sargiacomo, Stefano Bonaccini, Claire Fita, Marko Vešligaj, Elena Sancho Murillo, Camilla Laureti

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
To the extent possible, Member States shall base their assessment of needs and the design of the measures on the principle that data is collected only once and re-used.When implementing this Regulation, Member States shall ensure that data provided by farmers and other CAP beneficiaries is collected only once and re-used across information systems.

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Amendment 3347

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
For the elements referred to in the first subparagraph, point (a), the Member State shall consider in particular the need to establish a single digital identity framework and shall consider alignment with Regulation (EU) No 910/2014, including as regards the European Digital Identity Wallet for natural and legal persons.deleted

Or. en

Justification

System should be voluntary. There is a need to ensure more clarity when it comes to the rules governing data access, individual data protection (aggregation, anonymisation) and secondary use of farm-level data as well as preventing its misuse. This clarification would need to be provided for as early on as the basic act. As already mentioned in point 3.8, as a principle, any data collection system should respect strict data protection rules and business confidentiality, avoid unnecessary administrative burden, ensure farmers retain control over the use of their data as per the EU Code of Conduct on Agricultural Data Sharing and the Data Governance Act. Digitalisation must reduce the administrative burden on farmers and cooperatives and farmers organisations already play an important role in this regard.

Aspects with a direct impact on CAP implementation and on farmers such as these need to be part of the basic act. Whenever this is not possible, that implementing acts would be more appropriate than delegated acts, but they should only be used when such aspects cannot be specified in the basic act.

Amendment 3348

Katarína Roth Neveďalová, Erik Kaliňák

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
For the elements referred to in the first subparagraph, point (a), the Member State shall consider in particular the need to establish a single digital identity framework and shall consider alignment with Regulation (EU) No 910/2014, including as regards the European Digital Identity Wallet for natural and legal persons.deleted

Or. en

Amendment 3349

Dario Nardella, André Franqueira Rodrigues, Cristina Maestre, Stefano Bonaccini, Claire Fita, Marko Vešligaj, Elena Sancho Murillo, Camilla Laureti

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Data shared through interoperable information systems under this Regulation shall be anonymised and used exclusively for purposes related to the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP or for statistical purposes.

Or. en

Amendment 3350

Carmen Crespo Díaz, Elena Nevado del Campo, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 3 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
3a. The collection, processing, exchange and publication of data in the context of the CAP shall be limited to that which is strictly necessary and proportionate for the management, monitoring, tracking and assessment of interventions. Additional information relating to the ownership structure, the ownership of plots, rental relationships or the property or company data of beneficiaries shall not be required or published unless it is strictly necessary and expressly provided for in applicable EU law. The ‘once-only’ principle shall be applied, thus preventing duplicate requests for information that is already available on official administrative records.

Or. es

Justification

Simplification must also be reflected in data management. The CAP must not create new administrative burdens or disclose sensitive property or production data relating to farmers or livestock breeders.

Amendment 3351

Dario Nardella, André Franqueira Rodrigues, Cristina Maestre, Eric Sargiacomo, Stefano Bonaccini, Claire Fita, Marko Vešligaj, Elena Sancho Murillo, Camilla Laureti

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
The Member States shall submit to the Commission by 16 December of each calendar year an annual report on the implementation of the Roadmap, assessing the progress of the implementation of the steps and measures and the timeframe set out in the Roadmap.The Member States shall submit to the Commission by 16 December of each calendar year an annual report on the implementation of the Roadmap, assessing the progress of the implementation of the steps and measures and the timeframe set out in the Roadmap. The annual reporting requirements shall remain proportionate and shall not give rise to additional administrative burden for farmers or national administrations.

Or. en

Amendment 3352

Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, Ana Miguel Pedro, Sérgio Humberto, Paulo Cunha, Sebastião Bugalho

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
The Member States shall submit to the Commission by 16 December of each calendar year an annual report on the implementation of the Roadmap, assessing the progress of the implementation of the steps and measures and the timeframe set out in the Roadmap.The Member States shall submit their Roadmaps to the Commission by 16 December 2028. The Member States shall then submit to the Commission, by 16 December 2031 and 16 December 2034 respectively, an initial and final report on the implementation of the Roadmap, assessing the progress of the implementation of the steps and measures and the timeframe set out in the Roadmap.

Or. pt

Amendment 3353

Céline Imart

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
The Member States shall submit to the Commission by 16 December of each calendar year an annual report on the implementation of the Roadmap, assessing the progress of the implementation of the steps and measures and the timeframe set out in the Roadmap.The Member States shall submit to the Commission a report on the implementation of the Roadmap, assessing the progress of the implementation of the steps and measures and the timeframe set out in the Roadmap, and shall do so at two points during the programme: at the midway point and the end of the programme.

Or. fr

Amendment 3354

Céline Imart

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Where necessary, Member States shall submit to the Commission amendments of the Roadmaps together with the annual reports.Where necessary, Member States shall submit to the Commission amendments of the Roadmaps.

Or. fr

Amendment 3355

Céline Imart

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Member States shall submit the first annual report to the Commission by 16 December 2029.Member States shall submit the first annual report to the Commission by 16 December 2031.

Or. fr

Amendment 3356

Stefan Köhler, Monika Hohlmeier, Tomáš Zdechovský, Marion Walsmann, Norbert Lins, Lena Düpont

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 4 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
4a. The Commission shall establish a fully interoperable IT system in order to aggregate the ownership and control information sent by the Member States, to identify and trace large-scale beneficiaries of CAP support across the EU, based on harmonised data standards that allow the cross-border aggregation among all Member States to identify real ownership and control within the European Union; stresses that such a system should allow payments to be tracked through to final recipients and, where applicable, to the beneficial owners of legal persons; underlines that the system must be implemented in full compliance with the GDPR and the decisions of the Court of Justice;

Or. en

Amendment 3357

Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Gilles Pennelle, Valérie Deloge, Barbara Bonte, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Csaba Dömötör, Tomáš Kubín, Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 5

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
5. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 23, which are necessary to ensure that interoperability and seamless data exchange between information systems used for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP are implemented in an efficient, coherent, effective and timely manner, supplementing this Article with rules where the implementation of the Roadmap referred to in paragraph 2 so requires as well as rules on interoperability measures referred to in paragraph 3, point (b).5. The Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts in accordance with Article 23, which are necessary to ensure that interoperability and seamless data exchange between information systems used for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP are implemented in an efficient coherent, effective and timely manner, supplementing this Article with rules on interoperability measures referred to in paragraph 3, point (b).

Or. en

Amendment 3358

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 5

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
5. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 23, which are necessary to ensure that interoperability and seamless data exchange between information systems used for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP are implemented in an efficient, coherent, effective and timely manner, supplementing this Article with rules where the implementation of the Roadmap referred to in paragraph 2 so requires as well as rules on interoperability measures referred to in paragraph 3, point (b).5. The Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts in accordance with Article 23, which are necessary to ensure that interoperability and seamless data exchange between information systems used for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP are implemented in an efficient, coherent, effective and timely manner, supplementing this Article with rules on interoperability measures referred to in paragraph 3, point (b).

Or. en

Justification

System should be voluntary. There is a need to ensure more clarity when it comes to the rules governing data access, individual data protection (aggregation, anonymisation) and secondary use of farm-level data as well as preventing its misuse. This clarification would need to be provided for as early on as the basic act. As already mentioned in point 3.8, as a principle, any data collection system should respect strict data protection rules and business confidentiality, avoid unnecessary administrative burden, ensure farmers retain control over the use of their data as per the EU Code of Conduct on Agricultural Data Sharing and the Data Governance Act. Digitalisation must reduce the administrative burden on farmers and cooperatives and farmers organisations already play an important role in this regard.

Aspects with a direct impact on CAP implementation and on farmers such as these need to be part of the basic act. Whenever this is not possible, that implementing acts would be more appropriate than delegated acts, but they should only be used when such aspects cannot be specified in the basic act.

Amendment 3359

Luis-Vicențiu Lazarus

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 5

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
5. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 23, which are necessary to ensure that interoperability and seamless data exchange between information systems used for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP are implemented in an efficient, coherent, effective and timely manner, supplementing this Article with rules where the implementation of the Roadmap referred to in paragraph 2 so requires as well as rules on interoperability measures referred to in paragraph 3, point (b).5. The Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts in accordance with Article 23, which are necessary to ensure that interoperability and seamless data exchange between information systems used for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP are implemented in an efficient, coherent, effective and timely manner, supplementing this Article with rules on interoperability measures referred to in paragraph 3, point (b).

Or. en

Amendment 3360

Carmen Crespo Díaz, Elena Nevado del Campo, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 5

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
5. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 23, which are necessary to ensure that interoperability and seamless data exchange between information systems used for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP are implemented in an efficient, coherent, effective and timely manner, supplementing this Article with rules where the implementation of the Roadmap referred to in paragraph 2 so requires as well as rules on interoperability measures referred to in paragraph 3, point (b).5. The Commission may adopt implementing acts in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 23, when they are necessary to ensure that interoperability and data exchange between information systems used for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP are implemented in an efficient, coherent, effective and timely manner. These implementing acts shall be limited to technical aspects of interoperability and may not introduce new substantive duties for farmers, cooperatives, beneficiaries or national authorities that are not provided for in this Regulation.

Or. es

Justification

Rules that directly affect the implementation of the CAP and the duties of beneficiaries must be in the basic act. When subsequent acts are necessary, they must be limited to technical aspects and avoid new substantive burdens.

Amendment 3361

Katarína Roth Neveďalová, Erik Kaliňák

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 5

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
5. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 23, which are necessary to ensure that interoperability and seamless data exchange between information systems used for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP are implemented in an efficient, coherent, effective and timely manner, supplementing this Article with rules where the implementation of the Roadmap referred to in paragraph 2 so requires as well as rules on interoperability measures referred to in paragraph 3, point (b).5. The Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts in accordance with Article 23, which are necessary to ensure that interoperability and seamless data exchange between information systems used for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the CAP are implemented in an efficient, coherent, effective and timely manner, supplementing this Article with rules where the implementation of the Roadmap referred to in paragraph 2 so requires as well as rules on interoperability measures referred to in paragraph 3, point (b).

Or. en

Amendment 3362

Veronika Vrecionová

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 5 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
5a. Member States shall ensure that the Commission has secure, direct and read-only electronic access for the purposes of the implementation, monitoring, evaluation, audit, protection of the financial interests of the Union and the prevention, detection and correction of fraud, conflicts of interest, double funding and other irregularities, to:
(a) the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS);
(b) the integrated administration and control system;
(c) records relating to beneficiaries receiving support under this Regulation;
(d) any other information systems referred to in paragraph 1 that are necessary for the effective exercise of the Commission's responsibilities under Union law.
Such access shall be limited to the data strictly necessary for those purposes and shall comply with Union legislation on the protection of personal data and information security.

Or. en

Justification

The amendment strengthens the protection of the Union budget by enabling the Commission to verify CAP expenditure on the basis of reliable data. It reflects repeated recommendations of the European Court of Auditors to improve the detection of fraud, conflicts of interest and irregularities while ensuring read-only access limited to what is strictly necessary.

Amendment 3363

Arash Saeidi, Luke Ming Flanagan, Sebastian Everding, Emma Fourreau

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 – paragraph 6 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
6a. Member States shall involve the competent regional and local authorities in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of the CAP Strategic Plan and the programmes under this Regulation, in particular the regional and local authorities of the territories covered by Articles 174 and 349 TFEU.

Or. fr

Amendment 3364

Daniel Buda, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21a.
Article 52 Functions of the paying agency
1. The paying agency shall have an administrative organisation and a system of internal control that complies with internationally recognised standards of internal control and that provides sufficient guarantees that payments are legal, regular and properly justified.
2. Each Member State shall, taking into account its institutional provisions, restrict the number of its accredited paying agencies to a single paying agency at national level or, where applicable, one per region.
3. In relation to the measures referred to in Article 5 [CAP type of interventions], the paying agency shall perform the tasks of the managing authority listed in Article 51(1) [managing authority], points (b), (c), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j) and (k) and (2) and (3) of that Article. The paying agency may delegate the performance of its tasks, with the exception of making payments.
4. The paying agency shall provide the coordinating authority with the necessary information for the purpose of Article 50, points (c), (e) and (f) of Regulation [CA]. The person in charge of the paying agency shall draw up and provide to the coordinating authority the management declaration referred to in Article 59(1), point (c), of this Regulation [Submission of the annual assurance package].
5. Each Member State shall continuously monitor the compliance of the paying agency with the requirements laid down in paragraph 1 and be in charge of issuing, reviewing and withdrawing their accreditation. Where the Member State has determined that an accredited paying agency no longer respects one or more of the requirements laid down in paragraph 1 in a manner that affects the fulfilment of its tasks, the Member State shall put the paying agency’s accreditation under probation without delay. It shall draw up a plan including actions and deadlines to remedy the deficiencies found within a period to be determined according to the severity of the problem. That period which shall not exceed 12 months from the date on which the accreditation is put under probation. In duly justified cases, the Commission may, upon request of the Member State concerned, grant an extension of that period.

Or. ro

Amendment 3365

Cristina Maestre, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article21a
Crisis payments to farmers following natural disasters, adverse climatic events and catastrophic events
1. Member States may provide crisis payments to farmers that are affected by natural disasters, adverse climatic events or catastrophic events. Those payments shall aim at ensuring continuity of the agricultural activity of those farmers and shall be subject to the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified by the Member States.
2. Support under this Article shall be subject to the formal recognition by the competent authority of the Member State that a natural disaster, adverse climatic event or catastrophic event, as defined by the Member State, has occurred and that these events, or measures adopted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 to eradicate or contain a plant disease or pest, or measures adopted to prevent or eradicate animal diseases listed in the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 or measures adopted regarding an emerging disease in accordance with Article 6(3) and Article 259 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 have directly caused a damage resulting in the destruction of at least 20 % of the average annual production of the farmer in the preceding three-year period or a three-year average based on the preceding five-year period, excluding the highest and the lowest entry.
3. The losses shall be calculated either at holding level, at the level of the holding’s activity in the sector concerned or in relation to the specific area concerned.
4. Member States shall establish the applicable support rates for compensating the loss of production. Those rates shall be higher for farmers who also implement interventions, or other preventive actions at farm level, to reduce the level of production and income risks for which support is granted. Indexes may be used for calculating the loss of production.
5. When granting support under this Article, Member States shall ensure that overcompensation as a result of the combination of this support with other national or Union support instruments or private insurance schemes is avoided.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 38). New text: "20%" instead 30% of destruction.

Amendment 3366

Carmen Crespo Díaz, Elena Nevado del Campo, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21a.
Article 21a (new) (ex Article 84 of the NRP) Rules applying to undertakings
Where support is granted through CAP interventions referred to in Article 5(1) of this Regulation to forms of cooperation between undertakings, including cooperatives, producer organisations, associations of producer organisations, cross-industry organisations, irrigation communities and other collective structures for farmers or livestock breeders, it may be granted only to such forms of cooperation which comply with the competition rules provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013. These competition rules shall be applied in a manner that preserves the capacity of farmers and their organisations to concentrate supply, improve their negotiation power, plan production, develop processing and sales, improve water and resource management, and to promote innovation, quality systems, short supply chains and added value in rural areas.

Or. es

Amendment 3367

Céline Imart

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21a.
Release of information
Member States shall ensure that the beneficiaries of support granted under NRPCAP Plan interventions provide the managing authority, or other bodies responsible for performing duties on its behalf, with all the information needed to monitor and assess the NRPCAP Plan.
Member States shall ensure that comprehensive, timely and reliable data sources are established to enable effective follow-up of policy progress towards objectives using output, result and impact indicators.

Or. fr

Amendment 3368

Mireia Borrás Pabón

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21a.
Rules applying to undertakings
Where support is granted through CAP interventions referred to in Article 35(1) of the NRP Regulation to forms of cooperation between undertakings, it may be granted only to such forms of cooperation which comply with the competition rules provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

Or. es

Amendment 3369

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21a
Rules applying to undertakings
Where support is granted through CAP interventions referred to in Article 5(1) of that Regulation to forms of cooperation between undertakings, it may be granted only to such forms of cooperation which comply with the competition rules provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art 84)

Amendment 3370

Luke Ming Flanagan, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Sebastian Everding, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21a
Rules applying to undertakings.
Where support is granted through CAP interventions referred to in Article 35(1) of NRP Regulation to forms of cooperation between undertakings, it may be granted only to such forms of cooperation which comply with the competition rules provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

Or. en

Amendment 3371

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article21a
Rules applying to undertakings
Where support is granted through CAP interventions referred to in Article 35(1) of NRP Regulation to forms of cooperation between undertakings, it may be granted only to such forms of cooperation which comply with the competition rules provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

Or. en

Amendment 3372

Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Gilles Pennelle, Valérie Deloge, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Csaba Dömötör, Tomáš Kubín, Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article21a
Rules applying to undertakings
Where support is granted through CAP interventions referred to in Article 5(1) of that Regulation to forms of cooperation between undertakings, it may be granted only to such forms of cooperation which comply with the competition rules provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art 84)

Amendment 3373

Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Gilles Pennelle, Valérie Deloge, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Csaba Dömötör, Tomáš Kubín, Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article21b
State aid
1. Save as otherwise provided for in this Article, Articles 107, 108 and 109 TFEU shall apply to support under this Regulation(EU) 202X/XXXX [CAP Regulation] and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 in relation to types of interventions laid down in Part II, Title I, Chapter IIa of that Regulation;
2. Articles 107, 108 and 109 TFEU shall not apply to support paid by Member States pursuant to and in accordance with this Regulation and to the national contribution to eligible costs provided by Member States for the CAP interventions referred to in Article 5(1), points (d) to (f) and (h) to (r) of that Regulation or to the additional national financing provided for CAP interventions referred to in Article 5(1), points (d) to (f) and (h) to (r) of that Regulation, falling within the scope of Article 42 TFEU.
3. Support provided by Member States referred to in paragraph 1 in relation to operations falling within the scope of Article 42 TFEU that is intended to provide additional financing for interventions referred to in Article 5(1), points (d), (e), (f) and (h) to (r), of that Regulation for which Union support is granted at any time during the Plan period may only be made if it complies with this Regulation, NRP Regulation and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and set out in the NRP Plan.
4. Member States shall not provide additional national financing for interventions referred to in Article 5(1), points (a), (b), (c) and (g), of that Regulation.
5. For the agricultural products covered by Annex I to the TFEU, to which Articles 107, 108 and 109 thereof apply, the Commission may authorise, in accordance with Article 108 TFEU, operating aid in the sectors producing, processing and marketing those products, with a view to alleviating the specific constraints on farming, in the outermost regions and the smaller Aegean islands as a result of their isolation, insularity, small size and extreme remoteness. Member States may grant additional financing for the implementation of interventions in outermost regions and smaller Aegean islands pursuant to this Regulation. In such cases, the Member States shall notify the additional financing to the Commission and the Commission may approve it in accordance with this Regulation as part of the Plans. Thus, aid notified shall be regarded as notified within the meaning of the first sentence of Article 108(3) TFEU.
6. By way of derogation from Article 211 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006[1], Articles 107, 108 and 109 TFEU shall not apply to payments to support local agricultural production and specific supply arrangements made by Member States in accordance with this Regulation. [1] Council Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006 of 24 July 2006 applying certain rules of competition to the production of, and trade in, agricultural products (OJ L 214, 4.8.2006, p. 7, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2006/1184/oj).

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 85) S

Amendment 3374

Ivan David

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21b
State aid
1. Save as otherwise provided for in this Article, Articles 107, 108 and 109 TFEU shall apply to support under this Regulation(EU) 202X/XXXX [CAP Regulation] and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 in relation to types of interventions laid down in Part II, Title I, Chapter IIa of that Regulation;
2. Articles 107, 108 and 109 TFEU shall not apply to support paid by Member States pursuant to and in accordance with this Regulation and to the national contribution to eligible costs provided by Member States for the CAP interventions referred to in Article 5(1), points (d) to (f) and (h) to (r) of that Regulation or to the additional national financing provided for CAP interventions referred to in Article 5(1), points (d) to (f) and (h) to (r) of that Regulation, falling within the scope of Article 42 TFEU.
3. Support provided by Member States referred to in paragraph 1 in relation to operations falling within the scope of Article 42 TFEU that is intended to provide additional financing for interventions referred to in Article 5(1), points (d), (e), (f) and (h) to (r), of that Regulation for which Union support is granted at any time during the Plan period may only be made if it complies with this Regulation, NRP Regulation and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and set out in the NRP Plan.
4. Member States shall not provide additional national financing for interventions referred to in Article 5(1), points (a), (b), (c) and (g), of that Regulation.
5. For the agriculturalproducts covered by Annex I to the TFEU, to which Articles 107, 108 and 109 thereof apply, the Commission may authorise, in accordance with Article 108 TFEU, operating aid in the sectors producing, processing and marketing those products, with a view to alleviating the specific constraints on farming, in the outermost regions and the smaller Aegean islands as a result of their isolation, insularity, small size and extreme remoteness.
Member States may grant additional financing for the implementation of interventions in outermost regions and smaller Aegean islands pursuant to this Regulation. In such cases, the Member States shall notify the additional financing to the Commission and the Commission may approve it in accordance with this Regulation as part of the Plans. Thus, aid notified shall be regarded as notified within the meaning of the first sentence of Article 108(3) TFEU.
6. By way of derogation from Article 211 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006, Articles 107, 108 and 109 TFEU shall not apply to payments to support local agricultural production and specific supply arrangements made by Member States in accordance with this Regulation. 1a
1a Council Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006 of 24 July 2006 applying certain rules of competition to the production of, and trade in, agricultural products (OJ L 214, 4.8.2006, p. 7, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2006/1184/oj).

Or. en

Justification

(former NRP Art. 85)

Amendment 3375

Luke Ming Flanagan, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Sebastian Everding, Arash Saeidi

on behalf of The Left Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21b
State aid
1. Save as otherwise provided for in this Article, Articles 107, 108 and 109 TFEU shall apply to support under this Regulation(EU) 202X/XXXX [CAP Regulation] and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 in relation to types of interventions laid down in Part II, Title I, Chapter IIa of that Regulation
2. Articles 107, 108 and 109 TFEU shall not apply to support paid by Member States pursuant to and in accordance with this Regulation and to the national contribution to eligible costs provided by Member States for the CAP interventions referred to in Article 35(1), points (d) to (f) and (h) to (r) of the NRP Regulation or to the additional national financing provided for CAP interventions referred to in Article 35(1), points (d) to (f) and (h) to (r) of the NRP Regulation, falling within the scope of Article 42 TFEU
3. Support provided by Member States referred to in paragraph 1 in relation to operations falling within the scope of Article 42 TFEU that is intended to provide additional financing for interventions referred to in Article 35(1), points (d), (e), (f) and (h) to (r), of the NRP Regulation for which Union support is granted at any time during the Plan period may only be made if it complies with this Regulation, NRP Regulation and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and set out in the NRP Plan.
4. Member States shall not provide additional national financing for interventions referred to in Article 35(1), points (a), (b), (c) and (g), of the NRP Regulation.
5. For the agricultural, fishery and aquaculture products covered by Annex I to the TFEU, to which Articles 107, 108 and 109 thereof apply, the Commission may authorise, in accordance with Article 108 TFEU, operating aid in the sectors producing, processing and marketing those products, with a view to alleviating the specific constraints on farming, fisheries and aquaculture production in the outermost regions and the smaller Aegean islands as a result of their isolation, insularity, small size and extreme remoteness. Member States may grant additional financing for the implementation of interventions in outermost regions and smaller Aegean islands pursuant to this Regulation. In such cases, the Member States shall notify the additional financing to the Commission and the Commission may approve it in accordance with this Regulation as part of the Plans. Thus, aid notified shall be regarded as notified within the meaning of the first sentence of Article 108(3) TFEU.
6. By way of derogation from Article 211 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006 Articles 107, 108 and 109 TFEU shall not apply to payments to support local agricultural production and specific supply arrangements made by Member States in accordance with this Regulation

Or. en

Amendment 3376

Carmen Crespo Díaz, Elena Nevado del Campo, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21b.
Article 21b (new) (ex Article 85 of the NRP) State aid
3. Support provided by Member States referred to in paragraph 1 in relation to operations falling within the scope of Article 42 TFEU that is intended to provide additional financing for interventions referred to in Article 5 (1), points (d), (e), (f) and (h) to (r) of this Regulation for which Union support is granted at any time during the Plan period may only be made if it complies with this Regulation, the National and Regional Partnership (NRP) Regulation and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and is set out in the NRP Plan.
Member States, including national or regional authorities, may provide additional funding for veterinary expenses associated with significant veterinary crises, including when those expenses are funded through the Mechanism Safety Net, provided that this is necessary to protect animal health, public health, food security, the stability of the market or the continuity of agricultural activity. This additional funding shall be evaluated proportionately and urgently and may not delay the application of emergency veterinary measures.

Or. es

Amendment 3377

Daniel Buda, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21b.
Article 20(1) – National contribution to estimated costs – moved from the NRPP Regulation
1. The minimum national contribution rate to the estimated costs of a measure under the CAP cannot be lower than: (a) 15% for less developed regions; Article 20(4) has been moved from the NDRP
2. No national contribution shall be requested for interventions referred to in Article 5, points (a), (b), (c) and (g). No additional national financing shall be provided for those interventions. Any contribution rate derogating from those of paragraph 1 set out for interventions referred to in Title V, including where no national contributions are requested, shall only apply to a total amount of interventions not exceeding the Member State’s share of the amount set out in Article 10(2), point (a)(ii), as laid down in Annex I.

Or. ro

Amendment 3378

Daniel Buda, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21c.
Article 22 Requirements for the NRP Plan
CAP:
(a) concentrate resources on: supporting generational renewal in the agricultural sector, in accordance with Article 8 of Regulation XX [CAP, generational renewal];
(b) effectively contribute to: I) improving farm resilience and management of risks at farm level and supporting the digital and data-driven transition of agriculture and rural areas to enhance their competitiveness, sustainability and resilience; (II) the environmental and climate priority areas set out in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 202X/XXXX [CAP – Environment and climate priority areas].
(c) promote partnership, knowledge exchange and as relevant distribution of agricultural products by setting out:
(I) which stakeholders have been consulted, how these were selected, how their representativeness and prevention of conflict of interest has been ensured and how their input is reflected in the Plan in line with the code of conduct on partnership22 , and by including a summary of the consultation process conducted for the preparation of the Plan and each chapter;
(II) an Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System including its organisation set-up in accordance with Article 20 of Regulation (EU) 202X/XXXX [CAP Regulation – Agricultural knowledge and innovation systems and farm advisory services]; (III) the modalities for the EU school scheme in accordance with Title I, Part II, Chapter IIa of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.
(d) specify the way in which the NRP Plan and its implementation comply with the principle set out in Article 6(3), including a description of the protective practices referred to in Article 3(4) of Regulation (EU) 202X/XXXX [CAP Regulation], their territorial scope, farmers and other beneficiaries subject to the practice and a summary of the protective practice, and complementarity between the elements of the farm stewardship and the relevant measures supported under the NRP Plan;

Or. ro

Amendment 3379

Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Gilles Pennelle, Valérie Deloge, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Csaba Dömötör, Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article21c
Transitional measures
1. This Regulation should provide for the continued application of the rules of the current CAP framework covering the period 2023 to 2027 (‘current CAP framework’) and for uninterrupted payments to farmers and other beneficiaries, and thus provide predictability and stability during the transitional period in the years 2028 and 2029 (‘transitional period’) until the date of application of the new legal framework.

Or. en

Amendment 3380

Daniel Buda, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 21 d (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 21d.
Control and penalty system for farm stewardship
1. Member States shall as part of the controls referred to in Article 58 [Responsibilities of Member States] of the {NRPP Regulation] verify the compliance of beneficiaries with the requirements of the farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of this Regulation and with Article XX paragraph XX of Regulation (EU) 202X/XXXX [CFP Regulation]. Where the area eligible for the support referred to in the first subparagraph, as declared in the geo-spatial application referred to in Article 20 [IACS], does not exceed 10 hectares, the beneficiaries shall be exempted from controls and penalties under this Article. Where a beneficiary has been selected for an on-the-spot check on an aid application or on a payment claim, Member States shall, to the extent possible and taking account of the associated risks, not select that beneficiary for a subsequent check and control sample for that year, except when the circumstances require more than one on-the-spot check in order to ensure the effective protection of the financial interests of the Union. This provision shall not reduce the level of checks.
2. For the purposes of the obligation laid down in Article 62(1), first subparagraph, of Regulation (EU) [...] [NRP], Member States shall make use of their control and enforcement systems in the areas of climate and environment, public health, plant health and animal welfare, social and employment legislation, and applicable labour standards to ensure that beneficiaries of the support comply with the legal requirements in relation to management set out in Annex I, parts A and B.
3. The managing authority or paying agency shall be notified where relevant at least once a year of cases of non-compliance where enforceable decisions in that respect have been made under the applicable control and enforcement systems referred to in paragraph 1. That notification shall include an assessment and grading of the severity, extent, permanence or reoccurrence and intentionality of the non-compliance concerned.
4. The administrative penalties referred to in paragraph 4 shall only apply to non-compliance with the requirements of the fishery stewardship referred to in Article 3 where that non-compliance is the result of an act or omission directly attributable to the beneficiary concerned, and where one or both of the following conditions are met:
(a) the non-compliance is related to the agricultural activity of the beneficiary, as defined by Member States in their NRP Plans in accordance with Article 2a(2) of this Regulation [Article 4(22) and (23) of the NRP Regulation];
(b) the non-compliance concerns the holding as defined in Article 4(15) [definitions – holding] of Regulation (EU) [...] [NRP] or other areas managed by the beneficiary situated within the territory of the same Member State. However, if the non-compliance concerns forest areas, the penalties referred to in paragraph 4 shall not be applied where no support is claimed for the area concerned.
5. Member States shall set up a system of administrative penalties applying to beneficiaries referred to in paragraph 3 who do not comply, at any time in the calendar year concerned, with the requirements of the fishery stewardship. The penalties shall consist of the reduction or exclusion of the total amount of the payments under measures listed in Article 5(1), points (a) to (f), and (o) and (p) to the extent they concern support for local agricultural products, granted or to be granted to the beneficiary concerned in respect of aid applications that the beneficiary has submitted or will submit in the course of the calendar year of the finding of the non-compliance. The penalties shall be calculated on the basis of the payments granted or to be granted in the calendar year in which the non-compliance occurred. However, where it is not possible to determine the calendar year in which the non-compliance occurred, the reductions or exclusions shall be calculated on the basis of the payments granted or to be granted in the calendar year of the finding of the non-compliance. For the calculation of those penalties, account shall be taken of the severity, extent, permanence or reoccurrence and intentionality of the non-compliance determined. A penalty imposed pursuant to the national legislation implementing the legal acts listed in Annex I, parts A and B, for the same act or omission of a farmer or other beneficiary shall be taken into account in the calculation of penalties referred to in the first subparagraph. The expenditure which has been reduced as a result of the application of a penalty shall be considered legal and regular. The reduction shall, as a general rule, be 3 % of the total amount of the payments. In the case of intentional non-compliance, the reduction shall be at least 15 % of the amount of those payments. Member States shall provide that no administrative penalty shall be imposed if:
(a) The non-compliance is due to force majeure or exceptional circumstances;
(b) The non-compliance is due to an order from a public authority.

Or. ro

Amendment 3381

Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Ton Diepeveen, Gilles Pennelle, Valérie Deloge, Barbara Bonte, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Csaba Dömötör, Tomáš Kubín, Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 22

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 22deleted
Measures to resolve specific problems
1. In order to resolve specific problems, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts which are both necessary and justifiable in an emergency. Such implementing acts may derogate from provisions of this Regulation to the extent and for such a period as strictly necessary. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 24(2).
2. On duly justified imperative grounds of urgency, and in order to resolve specific problems as referred to in paragraph 1 while ensuring the continuity of the CAP interventions set out in the NRP Plan in case of extraordinary circumstances, the Commission shall adopt immediately applicable implementing acts in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 24(3).
3. Measures adopted pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2 shall remain in force for a period not exceeding 12 months. If after this period, the specific problems referred to in those paragraphs persist, the Commission may, in order to establish a permanent solution, submit an appropriate legislative proposal.
4. The Commission shall inform the European Parliament and the Council of any measure adopted under paragraph 1 or 2 within two working days of its adoption.

Or. en

Amendment 3382

Arash Saeidi, Luke Ming Flanagan, Sebastian Everding, Emma Fourreau, Manon Aubry

Proposal for a regulation

Article 22 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1. In order to resolve specific problems, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts which are both necessary and justifiable in an emergency. Such implementing acts may derogate from provisions of this Regulation to the extent and for such a period as strictly necessary. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 24(2).1. In order to resolve specific problems, including those stemming from the negative effects of free trade agreements that give rise to economic, social, environmental and sanitary dumping to the detriment of European agriculture, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts which are both necessary and justifiable in an emergency. These acts shall include immediately triggering measures intended to suspend imports of agricultural products that do not respect the Union’s strict environmental, social and sanitary production standards. Such implementing acts may derogate from provisions of this Regulation to the extent and for such a period as strictly necessary. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 24(2).

Or. fr

Amendment 3383

Arash Saeidi, Luke Ming Flanagan, Sebastian Everding, Emma Fourreau

Proposal for a regulation

Article 22 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1a. The low level of farmer incomes can be partly attributed to the price volatility of agricultural raw materials and is exacerbated by speculative positions on futures markets, which remove the link between agricultural prices and the economic reality facing producers and put the Union’s food sovereignty at risk. No later than two years after this Regulation enters into force, the Commission shall present a legislative proposal for the revision of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 that introduces binding position limits intended to prevent speculation in agricultural raw material derivatives, and strengthens the supervisory and sanctioning powers of the European Securities and Markets Authority in relation to these markets.

Or. fr

Amendment 3384

Arash Saeidi, Sebastian Everding, Emma Fourreau

Proposal for a regulation

Article 22 – paragraph 1 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
1b. If, based on the monitoring data referred to in Article 20a, the Commission notes that the environmental and climate indicators linked to CAP interventions in a Member State have declined and this can be attributed to choices made when designing or implementing its NRP Plan, it shall require this Member State to submit a remedial plan within three months. If an appropriate remedial plan has not been submitted or approved by the end of this period, the Commission shall automatically suspend 15 % of the interim payments due to this Member State under all the interventions referred to in Article 5(1). If the decline has not been corrected within six months of the suspension, the payment suspension rate shall be increased to 25 % and the Commission shall submit a substantiated report to the European Parliament and the Council. Instead of being deferred, the suspended amounts shall be definitively forfeited by the Member State concerned if the correction is not made before the end of the programming period.

Or. fr

Amendment 3385

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 22 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
2. On duly justified imperative grounds of urgency, and in order to resolve specific problems as referred to in paragraph 1 while ensuring the continuity of the CAP interventions set out in the NRP Plan in case of extraordinary circumstances, the Commission shall adopt immediately applicable implementing acts in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 24(3).2. On duly justified imperative grounds of urgency, and in order to resolve specific problems as referred to in paragraph 1 while ensuring the continuity of the CAP interventions set out in the NRP Plan in case of extraordinary circumstances, the Commission shall first present basic evidence to justify the measures proposed before then adopting immediately applicable implementing acts in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 24(3). Within 3 months of the beginning of the urgency, the Commission shall provide more detailed quantifications or calculations of the expected impact of the measures it had proposed, referencing data sources, studies and assumptions made, constituting an impact assessment.

Or. en

Justification

This is to ensure evidence-based policy making even in such "emergency procedures", and to prevent the Commission breaching its own "better regulation" rules yet again. Weak or no justifications have been used to significantly alter policy, including cases in Ombudsman ruling 1379/2024/MIK. In the last programming period, the green architecture of CAP was altered 6 times since the 2021 new CAP was agreed by co-legislators, and not once was an impact assessment or any evidence provided to lawmakers, e.g. area/beneficiaries impacted, how they would be impacted, etc.

Amendment 3386

Thomas Waitz

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 22 – paragraph 3

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
3. Measures adopted pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2 shall remain in force for a period not exceeding 12 months. If after this period, the specific problems referred to in those paragraphs persist, the Commission may, in order to establish a permanent solution, submit an appropriate legislative proposal.3. Measures adopted pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2 shall remain in force for a period not exceeding 12 months. If after this period, the specific problems referred to in those paragraphs persist, the Commission may, in order to establish a permanent solution, submit an appropriate legislative proposal with impact assessment and measured proof of efficacy of the interim measures in paras 1 and 2 that are intended to become permanent, in line with the Better Regulation principles 1a.
1a Commission rules on evidence-based policy making: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-making-process/better-regulation_en

Or. en

Justification

This is to ensure evidence-based policy making even in such "emergency procedures", and to prevent the Commission breaching its own "better regulation" rules yet again. Weak or no justifications have been used to significantly alter policy, including cases in Ombudsman ruling 1379/2024/MIK. In the last programming period, the green architecture of CAP was altered 6 times since the 2021 new CAP was agreed by co-legislators, and not once was an impact assessment or any evidence provided to lawmakers, e.g. area/beneficiaries impacted, how they would be impacted, etc.

Amendment 3387

Emmanouil Kefalogiannis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 22 – paragraph 4 – indent 1 (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
– Adjustment of CAP financial allocations to inflation
1. The financial allocations provided for under this Regulation shall preserve their real value throughout the programming period.
2. Where the cumulative annual inflation rate within the Union, as measured by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) published by Eurostat, exceeds 2 % in any given financial year, the Commission shall assess its impact on the purchasing power of CAP support.
3. Where appropriate, the Commission shall submit, without undue delay, a legislative proposal to adjust the relevant financial allocations under this Regulation in order to preserve the effectiveness of CAP support and ensure the continued achievement of the objectives laid down in Article 39 TFEU.

Or. en

Amendment 3388

Céline Imart

Proposal for a regulation

Article 22 – paragraph 4 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
4a. Article 22a. – Controls
1. Member States shall as part of the controls referred to in Article 58 [Responsibilities of Member States] verify the compliance of beneficiaries with the requirements of the farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 202X/XXXX [CAP Regulation]. Member States must use the conditionality control system already in place to verify compliance with the requirements of good farm stewardship.
2. The administrative penalties referred to in paragraph 5 shall only apply to an intentional culpable breach of the requirements of the farm stewardship referred to in Article 3 of Regulation XX [CAP, farm stewardship] where that non-compliance is the result of an act or omission directly attributable to the beneficiary concerned, and where one or both of the following conditions are met:
the expenditure which has been reduced as a result of the application of a penalty shall be considered legal and regular. The reduction shall, as a general rule, be 3 % of the total amount of the payments. In the case of intentional non-compliance, the reduction shall be at least 5 % of the amount of those payments.
In the event of a minor breach, no administrative penalty shall be applied.

Or. fr

Amendment 3389

Céline Imart

Proposal for a regulation

Article 22 – paragraph 4 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
4b. For audit and control purposes, and to ensure transparency, monitoring and performance assessment, Member States shall collect, record and electronically store the information referred to under points (a) to (g), while keeping the administrative burden to a minimum, guaranteeing the security, integrity, anonymisation and confidentiality of personal data, as well as user authentication, and allowing the automated exchange of aggregated data with the electronic system designated by the Commission.
In relation to the data referred to in paragraph 1 related to the CAP interventions, the Member States shall make available to the Commission annually at the latest by 31 October of the year N the aggregated and anonymised information concerning area and animal-based payments made in claim year N1, sectoral interventions implemented in calendar year N1, and any other interventions as appropriate.

Or. fr

Amendment 3390

Céline Imart

Proposal for a regulation

Article 22 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 22a.
Performance framework
1. A performance framework shall be established under the shared responsibility of Member States and the Commission. This performance framework shall make it possible to report on, monitor and assess the performance of the NRPCAP Plan while it is being implemented. 2. The performance framework shall comprise the following elements:
(a) a set of common output, result, impact and context indicators;
(b) objectives and annual milestones, determined on the basis of the specific objective concerned with the help of relevant result indicators;
(c) data collection, storage and transmission;
The performance framework’s objectives shall be to:
(a) assess the impact, effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, coherence and EU added value of the CAP;
(b) monitor progress towards the objectives of the NRPCAP Plans;
(c) assess the impact, effectiveness, efficiency, relevance and coherence of the interventions set out in the NRPCAP Plans;
(d) support a shared learning process in the areas of monitoring and assessment.

Or. fr

Amendment 3391

Marta Wcisło

Proposal for a regulation

Article 23 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 21(6) shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of seven years from [OPOCE: [date of entry into force of this Regulation]]. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the seven-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period.2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 21(5) shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of seven years from [OPOCE: [date of entry into force of this Regulation]]. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the seven-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period.

Or. en

Amendment 3392

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 23 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 21(6) shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of seven years from [OPOCE: [date of entry into force of this Regulation]]. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the seven-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period.2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 21(5) shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of seven years from [OPOCE: [date of entry into force of this Regulation]]. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the seven-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period.

Or. en

Amendment 3393

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 23 – paragraph 3

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 21(6) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 21(5) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.

Or. en

Amendment 3394

Marta Wcisło

Proposal for a regulation

Article 23 – paragraph 3

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 21(6) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 21(5) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.

Or. en

Amendment 3395

Marta Wcisło

Proposal for a regulation

Article 23 – paragraph 6

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 21(6) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 21(5) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.

Or. en

Amendment 3396

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 23 – paragraph 6

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 21(6) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 21(5) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.

Or. en

Amendment 3397

Emmanouil Kefalogiannis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 23 – paragraph 6 – indent 1 (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
– Transitional measures
The Commission shall adopt, by means of delegated acts in accordance with Article [...], the measures necessary to ensure a smooth and legally certain transition from the arrangements provided for in Regulations (EU) No [...] to those laid down in this Regulation. Those measures shall guarantee the continuity of support, protect acquired rights and legitimate expectations of beneficiaries, and prevent any interruption of payments or commitments resulting solely from the entry into force of this Regulation. They shall also lay down the conditions under which support approved under the previous legal framework may continue and be integrated into under this Regulation, including technical assistance and ex-post evaluations.

Or. en

Amendment 3398

Stefano Bonaccini, Dario Nardella, Camilla Laureti

Proposal for a regulation

Article 24 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article24a
Evaluation
1. By 30 June 2031, the Commission shall carry out the first evaluation of this Regulation and shall present a report on the main findings of that evaluation to the European Parliament and to the Council, as well as to the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Such report shall be accompanied, if appropriate, by legislative proposals.
2. That evaluation shall assess at least:
(a) the effectiveness of this Regulation in achieving its objectives and, where appropriate, shall identify ways to improve that effectiveness;
(b) the continued appropriateness of this Regulation in light of the economic and geopolitical context.

Or. en

Amendment 3399

Carmen Crespo Díaz, Elena Nevado del Campo, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 24 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 24a.
By 30 June 2031, the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council on the application of this Regulation. This report shall evaluate, in particular, the effectiveness of the Regulation in ensuring food security, income for farmers, the competitiveness of the agri-food sector, resilience to climate change, the sustainability of holdings, generational renewal and the capacity to respond to market, health, climate or geo-political crises. Where appropriate, the report shall be accompanied by a legislative proposal to amend this Regulation.

Or. es

Justification

The CAP must be able to adapt to an increasingly uncertain economic, climate and geo-political context. A review clause means that an evaluation can be conducted as to whether the 2028-2034 framework continues to be sufficient for farmers, livestock breeders and food security.

Amendment 3400

Céline Imart

Proposal for a regulation

Article 24 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 24a.
Review
By 30 June 2031, the Commission shall review this Regulation and submit a report outlining its main conclusions to the European Parliament and the Council. This report shall assess the implementation of this Regulation and shall examine, in particular, how effective it has been in achieving its objectives, as well as its relevance in light of the economic and geopolitical context. The report may, where appropriate, be accompanied by a legislative proposal to amend this Regulation.

Or. fr

Amendment 3401

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 24 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 24a.
Review clause
The Commission shall review this Regulation and present to the European Parliament and the Council a report on the main findings by 30 June 2031. This report shall assess the implementation of this Regulation and its effectiveness in achieving the objectives, and also its continued relevance given the economic and geopolitical context. Where appropriate, the report shall be accompanied by a legislative proposal for amendments to this Regulation.

Or. pl

Amendment 3402

Stefan Köhler, Marion Walsmann, Lena Düpont

Proposal for a regulation

Article 24 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article24a
Transitional arrangements
This Regulation should provide for the continued application of the rules of the current CAP framework covering the period 2023 to 2027 (‘current CAP framework’) and for uninterrupted payments to farmers and other beneficiaries, and thus provide predictability and stability during the transitional period in the years 2028 and 2029 (‘transitional period’) until the date of application of the new legal framework.

Or. en

Amendment 3403

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 24 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 24b.
Transitional period
The rules applicable under the current CAP 2023-2027 shall continue to apply during the 2028-2029 transitional period or until the date of application of the new legal framework in order to ensure uninterrupted payments to farmers and other beneficiaries.

Or. pl

Amendment 3404

Krzysztof Hetman

Proposal for a regulation

Article 24 c (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 24c.
Mirroring in relation to trade in food
The Commission shall ensure that agricultural products imported from third countries fulfil production-related requirements equivalent to the requirements imposed on Union producers in relation to animal welfare, production standards and standards for sanitary and phytosanitary measures, including in relation to the use of substances not authorised in the Union and identifiability; the Commission shall present to the co-legislators an annual report on the equivalence of these requirements together with legislative proposals in the event that discrepancies are identified.

Or. pl

Amendment 3405

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 25 a (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article25a
Member States shall further establish in their NRP Plans the definitions of ‘agricultural activity’, ‘agricultural area’, ‘eligible hectare’, and ‘young farmer’ in accordance with objective and non-discriminatory criteria and the principle of proportionality.
(a) ‘agricultural activity’ shall be determined through both of the following activities:
(i) production of agricultural products, which consists of all activities aimed at obtaining those products; where agricultural products means products listed in Annex I to the TFEU, with the exception of fishery products, as well as cotton and short rotation coppice;
(ii) maintenance of agricultural areas, which consists of the activities aiming at keeping the land in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation; where duly justified for animal welfare or environmental reasons, extensive grazing of an agricultural area that does not result in an increase of agricultural production for the farmers concerned may also be considered ‘maintenance’.

Or. en

Justification

NRP Article 22

In point (a) "one or" deleted

Justification:

This approach ensures that both conditions must be fulfilled to help target CAP support to persons genuinely engaged in agricultural activity. This approach prevents payments to so-called "sofa farmers" and large investment funds who do not use the agricultural land for production, do not contribute to food security, but use the ‘’maintenance of agricultural areas’’ to maintain the eligibility for CAP support

Amendment 3406

Vilis Krištopans

Proposal for a regulation

Article 25 b (new)

Text proposed by the CommissionAmendment
Article 25b
1. Member States shall verify the compliance of beneficiaries with the requirements of the conditionality referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 202X/XXXX [CAP Regulation]. Member States shall make use of their control system already in place to check compliance with the conditionality requirements.
2. DELETED
3. DELETED
4. The administrative penalties referred to in paragraph 5 shall only apply to culpable non-compliance committed either negligently or intentionally with the requirements of the conditionality referred to in Article 3 of Regulation XX [CAP] where that non-compliance is the result of an act or omission directly attributable to the beneficiary concerned, and where one or both of the following conditions are met:
5. The expenditure which has been reduced as a result of the application of a penalty shall be considered legal and regular. The reduction shall, as a general rule, be 3 % of the total amount of the payments. In the case of negligent or intentional non-compliance, the reduction may be increased to 5 % of the amount of those payments. Where the non-compliance is insignificant, no administrative penalty shall be applied.

Or. en

Justification

NRP Article 62

- in point 1. "as part of the controls referred to in Article 58 [Responsibilities of Member States] " deleted

- in point 1. "farm stewardship" replaced by "conditionality"

- in point 1. "and with Article XX paragraph XX of Regulation (EU) 202X/XXXX [CFP Regulation]." replaced by ". Member States shall make use of their control system already in place to check compliance with the conditionality requirements."

- point 3. deleted

- point 3. deleted

- in point 4. after "apply to" added "culpable"

- in point 4. after " non-compliance" added "committed either negligently or intentionally"

- in point 4. ", farm stewardship" deleted

- in point 5. before "intentional" added "negligent or"

- in point 5. "shall be at least 15 % " replaced by "may be increased to 5 % "

- in point 5. at the end added "Where the non-compliance is insignificant, no administrative penalty shall be applied."